Ostrich Killer Sentenced

(Half Moon Bay, California) In July, a 19-year-old student, Timothy Andrew McKevitt, pleaded guilty to animal cruelty for his part in the death of an ostrich named Gaylord. McKevitt was among a group of drunken friends on Halloween night 2006 when Gaylord was killed.

This week, Judge Jack Grandsaert sentenced McKevitt to five months in jail and the payment of $5,000 restitution to Gaylord's owner Karen Schmidt.

Meanwhile, Mary Winkler has completed her five-month jail sentence for shotgunning her sleeping husband, Matthew Winkler, in the back. Unlike McKevitt, however, Winkler was not required to pay restitution.