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Dog beaten to death with baseball bats *-updated on 3 October 2010: South Bend, IN (US)

Case Details

Date of the event:Wednesday, August 4, 2010
State/Province:St. Joseph


Rates:Crime, Felony CTA
Sale:Alleged


Claimed: Gerald McKinley


Case updates: 1 update (s) available

A caller called the police Wednesday night with a disturbing story: it sounds like someone is beating death of a dog in the garden next door.


What police say they found was even more disturbing: a 40-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in the backyard of a house in the block 5000 Greenleaf Lane, near Washington High School, not digging a grave for a dog, but dead.


Police and animal control officials say the dog--a young pit bull named Bootsie--had been beaten bloody and lifeless with two baseball bats, after the said to be the 14-year-old bit on the leg.


By the time officers came, the two men--police not yet released their names because it hasn't been charged with a crime--were almost the completion of the grave and thought the dog was dead.


The police also found two blood-covered baseball bats at the Tomb, said South Bend Police Sergeant Chuck Stokes, who was on the scene.


The dog was under two heavy blankets and "hardly breathe," said Stokes.


One of the dog of the eyeballs, and her face was bloody and distorted the bat strikes.


The dog tried to stand up when Stokes the covers, but it may not be broken ribs and legs, according to Stokes.


Stokes estimated the freshly dug grave was 5-feet deep.


"They thought they would beat the dog dead and buried him in the back yard," he said.


South Bend animal control officials decided the dog the injuries were too strict and the animal was dropped.


According to reports from the police were at least seven people-including the 40 and 14-year-olds-the at home while the dog was hit, but the animal or the police were not contacted by everyone in the House.


Gary Libbey, South Bend Animal Control manager, said that the dog is said to have belonged to the 14-year-old the mother.


Stokes said the 14-year-old admitted to the defeat of the dog, but the Juvenile Justice Center refused to keep him because he is not a long history of criminal.


Libbey said a report was forwarded to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office on Friday and he was told costs as early as next week could be filed. it is not yet known whether the two suspects would be crime or felony charges.


The St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office filed against Friday against Gerald McKinley, 40, of South Bend, in the context of the August 4, beating a pit bull in a house in the 5000 block Greenleaf Street.

The cost followed an investigation by South Bend Police and the results of a necropsy on 17 September, according to a press release.


McKinley is in charge of an animal, a class d felony and animal cruelty, a class a misdemeanor mutilation.


His band was set at € 1000, and an arrest warrant was issued for his arrest.


According to the police, was the pit bull named Bootsie beaten to death with baseball bats. they found that the dog hardly breathe under the covers in the backyard, and a freshly dug grave in the vicinity.


The dog was because of the severity of his injuries, according to officials of the animal shall be dropped.


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