A young cow recently escaped from a Halal market in Connecticut and found its way into the back parking lot of a Home Depot store.

Rather than trying to lead the animal back to the market, they decided it was a better idea to just slaughter it right there in the parking lot. One of the employee from the Halal market even brought his bow and arrow but missed when he shot at the cow leaving the arrow stuck into the Home Depot wall.

According to the New York Post,

A young cow escaped slaughter at a Connecticut meat market — only to have its throat slit in public in Home Depot parking lot, according to a new report. The gory scene prompted the closure of the Saba meat store in Bloomfield, which kept livestock on its premises to be prepared in accordance with Islamic law, NBC Connecticut reported.

The cow dashed out of Saba on Saturday and ran across the street to the hardware store — with employee Badr Musaed and a contractor Andy Morrison hot on its trail. Morrison, who was doing renovation work at the meat store and was armed with a bow and arrow, tried to help Musaed corral the cow while the local police also responded.

Dash camera footage obtained by NBC shows the officer trying to box the bovine in with his cruiser — and Morrison attempting to shoot it with his weapon.

“As the cow ran towards the employees, Morrison shot at the cow, however he missed and the arrow struck the wall of the Home Depot,” the police report said.

Suddenly, Musaed whipped out a foot-long knife and slit the cow’s throat as other Saba employees wrangled the animal.

The employee was ticketed for public disturbance and the contractor was told by police that he would have been charged as well had there been more people in the area when he tried to shoot the cow with the bow and arrow.