Cattle and Deer killed in drive-by shootings in rural west Marin County

Cattle and deer killed in drive-by shootings In Rural West Marin County
Point Reyes Light staff
2007-05-11
Point Reyes Light - Point Reyes Station California


Over the last month, unidentified shooters have killed three cows and at least three deer in the Chileno Valley.

At 3:30 p.m. on Monday, March 19, John Goldbeck, a fourth generation Chileno Valley rancher, was feeding cows on his J.G. Angus Ranch when he saw out of the corner of his eye a “small, light-colored” car come to a stop. He then heard five “pops” in quick succession, like a firecracker.

“I’m used to tourists stopping to take pictures of the cows, and I’m used to teenage antics, so I thought little of it and turned back to my work,” Goldbeck said. “Right after I turned, I heard a ‘yahoo’ as the car took off – not moving fast, just rolling off.”

A few minutes later another car came to a stop at the same place, near the parcel Goldbeck rents to rancher Joe Vierra. People from the car yelled out, telling him a cow was bleeding. Goldbeck ran to the site, about 200 yards away, where he found a cow, near death, tangled in the fence wire. Goldbeck went home, contacted Vierra and grabbed his gun. The cow that had been shot was one of Vierra’s, a commercial cow raised for slaughter.

Observing its state, Goldbeck and Vierra decided to shoot the cow in the head to end its suffering.

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