May 01--YORK, Pa. -- Northeastern Regional Police charged an 18-year-old man today in connection with shooting and killing a cow with a bow and arrow as it grazed at an East Manchester Township farm April 22, according to a news release.
A charge of agricultural vandalism was filed today at Senior District Judge Gerald Shoemaker's office against Cole Allen Davis, of York Haven, the news release states.
"There is no immediate reason as to why Davis shot the cow," the news release states.
The cow was a mother to a young calf, currently being bottle-fed, according to the news release.
Police said the black angus cow, owned by farmer Chuck Wolf, was shot and killed at Forge Hill Farm in the 200 block of Gravel Hill Road.
Wolf said previously that he and his farmhands check the cows several times daily and that farm manager Tupper Sverduk found the cow dead with an arrow in her neck during the Sunday morning check.
"There's no hunting season right now. If somebody mistook it for a deer, they're nuts," Wolf said. "It's a heinous crime, senseless."
The cow was being raised for beef and was worth between $1,500 and $1,800, he said.
The farm has been in his family for three generations, and nothing like this has ever happened there, Wolf said.
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