Cheney Free Press -

SPOKANE COUNTY- Three Elk were found shot and abandoned on private land roughly 200 yards off the corner of Marsh and Adams Road in Fairfield. At approximately 11:30 AM, Jan. 2, Jason Shuman (Fairfield), discovered three elk lying on the snow covered ground. Upon further inspection, Shuman found that two of the elk had been killed, decapitated, and one was left paralyzed and alive with a bullet wound to the spine.

Shuman, who was out riding UTVs and hunting coyotes with a friend, calls this incident “disgusting and saddening”. All three elk were found within 100 yards of each other on...