Former Trainer Scherer Shot to Death at Fonner Park

Former trainer Todd Scherer was shot in a tack room at one of the barns at Fonner Park the morning of March 10, according to KLIN News in Nebraska. Scherer, 62, was found dead from gunshot wounds.

Grand Island Police arrived at the scene around 10 a.m. CT Thursday. They have arrested two suspects, a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy.

The man, Logan Horse Hunts of Wounded Knee, S.D., was found asleep in the same barn that Scherer was murdered in and was charged with homicide, robbery, and assault, the KLIN report said. After an overnight police investigation, the other suspect, a minor, was arrested and charged with suspicion of robbery, accessory to 1st-degree murder, and accessory to use a weapon to commit a felony, the news station reported.

KLIN reported that a gun and a baseball had been collected as evidence.

Fonner Park CEO Chris Kotulak informed BloodHorse that Scherer had just arrived to Grand Island that day and had not even begun his first morning of work at the track. He would have worked as a groom or an assistant trainer, but for whom it had not been determined.

Scherer, a native of Lincoln, was a head trainer for 13 years until 1994, training 60 Thoroughbred winners for earnings of $259,040. He also trained a Quarter Horse winner.

Kotulak said a remembrance of Scherer will run in the Fonner Park racing program March 12.