Sassy, Tuffy, Wiggles — do you recognize the names?
Murrieta police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the owner of a pet headstone found during the cleanup of a homeless encampment on Friday, March 7.
Riverside County’s homeless outreach team, City Net, found the headstone at a homeless encampment in a creek bed near Cherry Street and Adams Avenue in Murrieta, police Lt. Miguel Garcia said. The individual who resided there is known to local outreach personnel to bring various items to the site.
“We have no proof that the individual did it,” Garcia said. “The encampment isn’t only accessible to him. It could be a random person who dropped it off.”
The marker appears to be solid granite, is about two feet wide by five feet long, and weighs more than 100 pounds.
Based on the etchings in the headstone, all three animals lived for 10 years, with Sassy the last to die in 1990.
“We would really like to get it back to the owner,” police said in a Facebook post.
Police asked anyone with information about the headstone’s owner to contact Sgt. Matthew Schmidt at mschmidt@murrietaca.gov.
