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More than six weeks after a video showing the desecration of a dog’s corpse appeared on social media, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said the three young men seen in the video did not break any laws, but the case remains open.

The video depicting the body of a dog being shot multiple times, lit on fire and having fireworks shot out of the dog’s body was recorded on private land in rural McLennan County before it was posted on Snapchat and Facebook. The social media posts sent shock waves throughout the area in late September.

“We have interviewed every possible person who may have known about this, and our investigators have been in constant contact with the district attorney. We have pursued this from every angle and we can only go as far as the law will allow us,” McNamara said. “Had the dog been alive, it would have been a totally different situation, but that has been a very frustrating situation for all of us — to not be able to do something about this horrible, despicable, deplorable act.”