The nearly 9, 000 hogs at Loyd Ray Farms in Yadkin County, N.

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Investigators recovered a shotgun they believe was used in the incident, said Ray Pruitt of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.

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"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).

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The footage of Ray in custody was discovered in the Shelby County sheriff's office along with logs and photographs from the investigation.

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