One of the rodeo riders whose horse was stabbed over the weekend in a Las Vegas barn said Tuesday she came “face-to-face” with the teenage suspect charged with attacking her mare and two other horses.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Arielle Phillips told NBC News she was in a stall with her horse, Detail, late Friday night when the 17-year-old “came by twice to try and make conversation by asking me weird questions.”“She’s this stalker who has been following me on social media for a long time,” Phillips, who was in Vegas to compete in a barrel racing event held by the National Barrel Horse Association, said.“She obsessed over Detail and obsessed over meeting me.
And because she was also competing I guess this was her chance to meet us.”Arielle Phillips rides her horse, Detail.Arielle Phillips via FacebookPhillips, 34, said she had never responded to any of the suspect’s messages and tried not get into an extended conversation with the teenager.“It was weird,” Phillips said.
“She had no business being there.”But just minutes after she said goodnight to Detail and left the stall, Phillips wrote in a Facebook post that the teenager “brutally stabbed” the mare six times “causing Detail to go frantic and get loose, taking off thru the barn aisles, blood pouring everywhere.”“This girl had the nerve to call my boyfriend’s daughter while I literally just got back into the room after leaving Detail, stating she found Detail with her stall door open,” Phillips wrote.“Impossible! I latch and triple wrap the latch before I leave her stall.”The 17-year-old was arrested after three horses were reported injured around 2 a.m.
Saturday during the Professional’s Choice Vegas Super Show, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.“The teen had access to the barn, and investigators believe she may have used a knife to inflict multiple injuries...