Advocates call for justice after 9 wild horses shot dead in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest near Heber-Overgaard last week.

Officials with Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests have asked the public for help after the bodies of nine horses were discovered on the Black Mesa Ranger District, headquartered in Heber-Overgaard.

According to FOX 10 Phoenix, the U.S. Forest Service reported that all nine horses showed clear evidence of bullet wounds.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several Heber wild horses were rescued from drowning in a mud pit formed by a poorly maintained stock tank. Stock tanks serve as ...

HEBER, AZ (AZFamily) — Multiple wild horses have been getting stuck in the mud in the forest outside of Heber-Overgaard in northeastern Arizona. It’s a dangerous situation for the animals and the ...

April 28 (UPI) --A group of animal lovers came together in Arizona to rescue a mother horse and a foal stuck in a deep mud pit. Betty Nixon, of Friends of the Heber Wild Horses, said she was alerted ...

Rescuers jumped into a mud pit to save a trapped wild horse from drowning in Arizona. Screenshot of Friends of the Heber Wild Horses on Facebook A wild horse and her foal were trapped in a mud pit in ...

Wild horses kept getting stuck in a dangerous mud pit, so advocates in Arizona took a stand. Screenshot of Friends of the Heber Wild Horses' posts on Facebook A herd of wild horses and newborn foals ...

Several Heber wild horses were rescued from drowning in a mud pit formed by a poorly maintained stock tank. Stock tanks serve as small drinking ponds for grazing animals in the Apache-Sitgreaves ...

A herd of wild horses and newborn foals kept getting stuck in a dangerous mud pit in Arizona, so advocates took a stand. A team of determined rescuers rescued a mare and her baby trapped in the mud on ...