Police Investigate Shocking Horse Mutilation Caught on Video in Belize City

Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into a disturbing case of animal cruelty after a viral video surfaced showing several young men brutally attacking a horse in Belize City.

The video, shared widely on social media on the morning of Thursday prompted officers from Precinct Two’s Crimes Investigation Branch to visit the Dikes area off Fabers Road Extension. There, police found a brown horse with severe chop wounds to its right shoulder and above the right eye.

According to initial investigations, the horse’s owner had left the animal grazing in an abandoned lot on Friday, April 4th. He returned about 20 minutes later to find it missing. Nearly a week later, the viral footage led officers to the Dikes area, where the injured horse was recovered and later identified by its owner.

Photographs were taken of the wounds, GPS coordinates were recorded, and the horse was treated by a veterinarian from BAHA. Police have detained five individuals as persons of interest in connection with the incident.

Commissioner of Police Chester Williams confirmed that the department is actively considering charges. He stated:

“I can tell you we are looking at the possibility of charges for cruelty to animal and we will seek further advice from the DPP to see if there is any further charges that can be levied against those individuals. We need to send a strong signal. We are seeing that this type of occurrence is becoming more prevalent where animals are being treated inhumanely in such a cruel way. My thing is if these young men could have done [this] to the horse, imagine what they could have done to a human being.”