Update: Police wonder what the goat killers could do next

DETROIT, MI -- Three security guards at the Russell Industrial Complex on Monday night were discussing the disturbing discovery of a dead, gutted and burned goat in a nearby abandoned parking lot.

"I saw that (expletive), it was split up the stomach man," said one guard who declined to provide his name. "It had a rope by the damn throat and there were two circles. That's some witchcraft stuff."

He said a guard discovered the goat early Monday but police never came to investigate or remove the carcass. As of 11:30 p.m., the goat remained in the overgrown and littered parking lot of the former Karpinski's bar on the north end of the Russell Industrial Complex at the corner of Clay and the northbound I-75 service drive.

It had been placed inside a tied-up blue sheet and covered with the broken basket of a grocery cart.

Two circles made from a white powder surrounded the dead animal.

WJBK, Fox 2 News reported that guards made calls to 911, the Michigan Humane Society and Detroit Animal Control, none of whom would pick up the goat or initially investigate.

Fox 2 reported from the scene about 10:30 p.m. that Detroit police, after the news channel called them directly, came out to photograph and collect evidence.

It's unclear when the dead goat will be removed.