Teen athlete arrested, three horses pulled from competition after alleged overnight barn attack

A teenage rival has been arrested aft allegedly stabbing 3 horses astatine a tube racing lawsuit astatine a Nevada edifice implicit the weekend. 

Authorities with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department responded to a telephone reporting a equine had been injured astatine a barn adjacent the South Point Hotel Casino & Spa conscionable aft 2 a.m. Saturday, constabulary said successful a property release. 

Upon arriving connected scene, authorities recovered 3 horses that had "​​been intentionally injured with a crisp object," the section said. 

The LVMPD Animal Cruelty Section was subsequently notified and dispatched to the barn, starring detectives to place the teenage miss arsenic a imaginable fishy successful the alleged stabbings.

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A teenage rival was arrested aft allegedly stabbing 3 horses up of a tube racing lawsuit astatine the 2026 NBHA Professional's Choice Las Vegas Super Show successful Nevada connected May 30, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. (iStock)

Investigators revealed she had entree to the barn the horses were being kept in, and that they judge "she whitethorn person utilized a weapon to inflict aggregate injuries to the horses." 

While the injuries to the 3 horses are not life-threatening, the animals were incapable to vie successful the 2026 National Barrel Horse Association (NBHA) Professional's Choice Las Vegas Super Show, which was held astatine the South Point Arena and Equestrian Center implicit the weekend.

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Three horses sustained non-life-threatening injuries and could not vie successful the tube racing lawsuit astatine the 2026 NBHA Professional's Choice Las Vegas Super Show successful Nevada connected May 30, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. (iStock)

Following the find of the alleged stabbings, the teen was located astatine a adjacent edifice and taken into custody, constabulary said.

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She was aboriginal transported to the Clark County Juvenile Hall and charged with 12 counts of willful oregon malicious killing, maiming oregon torturing an carnal and 3 counts of felony malicious demolition of backstage spot valued astatine much than $5,000, constabulary said.

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An aerial presumption shows the South Point Hotel & Casino successful Las Vegas. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Her individuality has not been released by authorities owed to her age. 

In a connection posted to societal media, the NBHA said it "experienced an isolated incident" aboriginal Saturday, "involving the mistreatment of a constricted fig of equine athletes by an lawsuit competitor."

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"This concern was addressed instantly successful coordination with the National Barrel Horse Association, the South Point Hotel and Security, Metro Police, and each due parties," the enactment added. "The idiosyncratic progressive has been removed and placed successful the attraction of authorities, and determination is nary ongoing menace of immoderate kind."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NBHA and South Point Hotel Casino & Spa for comment.