An online fundraiser has been launched in an effort to help a local woman buy another horse after her ex-boyfriend reportedly fatally shot her American Quarter Horse valued in excess of $10,000 last month.

The GoFundMe was launched for Maillee Cooper after her ex-boyfriend, Shawn Brayden Jones, allegedly shot Bree, a horse she owned for the past nine years, four times with a lever-action .22-caliber rifle.

As of Tuesday evening, 13 people had contributed a total of $415 toward the fundraiser’s $10,000 goal.

The GoFundMe is accessible by visiting gofund.me/517b9f2f.

“Of course to Mailee, Bree is irreplaceable,” the GoFundMe says. “However, friends and family would love to see her honor the memory of Bree by continuing to pursue her equestrian dreams with another horse.”

Jones, of Moreland, was charged with one felony count of malicious injury to property on Feb. 7 for fatally shooting Bree following a Bingham County Sheriff’s Office investigation.

The incident unfolded around 4:45 p.m. on Feb. 6 when a sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a home in Moreland, a small town located northwest of Blackfoot, for a request for assistance, according to a sheriff’s office incident report the Idaho State Journal recently obtained.

Upon arrival, the deputy came into contact with Jones who was waiting outside of the residence. Jones told the deputy that he and his girlfriend had broken up about a week before and that her horse had been staying on the property, the report says.

Jones told the deputy that he did not think the horse had been fed or taken care of and that it wasn’t doing well so he “needed to put it down,” according to the report.

Jones told the deputy that nobody had come out to the home since he and his girlfriend broke up the week before, the report says. When the deputy asked Jones to explain what he meant by the horse was not doing very well, Jones “stammered and was unable to describe exactly what was wrong” with it, according to the report.

The deputy noted that he observed Jones’ breath smelled like alcohol and that “the smell grew as he spoke more,” the report said.

Jones then showed the deputy the dead horse, which was photographed at the scene.

“Aside from the bullet wounds, the horse appeared to be in good health. There were no signs of malnourishment or neglect,” the report says.

Jones told the deputy that he had used a lever-action .22-caliber rifle to shoot the horse, but that the gun was not with him at the moment, according to the report.

The deputy was asking Jones some additional questions when Jones’ father came out and requested to speak with the deputy. The deputy entered the father’s residence where he told the deputy that Jones did not need to shoot Bree and that they had feed for the animal, the report says.

The father told the deputy that Jones was out of control and needed to be criminally charged, according to the report.

The deputy then returned to Jones and told him that there was no logical reason for him to shoot the horse and that if he had any problems with the animal being on his property that he should have called animal control, the report says.

The deputy then gave Jones’ ex-girlfriend, Cooper, a call. The Idaho State Journal doesn’t typically identify the victims of crimes but spoke to Cooper for this article and she said she felt comfortable being identified.

Cooper told the deputy that she had visited Jones around 2 p.m. earlier that day and discovered that he had been drinking and decided she didn’t want to be a part of it so she went to leave, according to the report.

Cooper said that Jones became irate and started to yell at her, accusing her of cheating, the report said.

Cooper left to return to her home in McCammon to get a truck and trailer to pick up her horse and while she was driving she received a call from Jones’ father telling her that Jones had fatally shot Bree, the report says.

Cooper told the deputy that Bree was registered with the American Quarter Horse Association and was worth $10,000, according to the report.

On Friday, Cooper told the Journal that the owner of a horse that is the sister of Bree would be able to testify that Bree was actually valued at closer to $20,000. Bree was a 12-year-old American Quarter Horse that Cooper owned since the horse was 3 years old.

Cooper told the deputy that she had been out to feed and check on Bree two days beforehand and that a friend of hers had fed her the day of the incident and that the horse was not mistreated or neglected at all, the report says.

The deputy then called Jones’ misdemeanor probation officer to inform her of the situation and that it appeared Jones was under the influence, according to the report. The probation officer informed the deputy to administer a breathalyzer test and if Jones failed to arrest him on an agent’s warrant.

Jones completed a breathalyzer test and provided a blood alcohol content sample that was .186, more than two times the legal limit to safely operate a vehicle in Idaho, according to the report.

The deputy then arrested Jones and subsequently charged him with the felony malicious injury to property charge. While being arrested, Jones offered to pay for half of what Bree was worth but also “made it a point to state that he did not regret shooting the horse,” the report says.

Jones appeared in front of 7th District Judge James Howard Barrett Jr. for an arraignment hearing on Feb. 7, during which his bond was set at $30,000.

Jones is set to appear in court again on March 14 for a preliminary hearing that will involve local prosecutors attempting to prove there is enough evidence against him to elevate the case from the magistrate to district court level for trial.

If convicted of the felony malicious injury to property charge, Jones faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $1,000.