A 16-year-old was arrested in Peoria County for allegedly killing a cat by throwing it out the window of a transferring automobile.
The Peoria Sheriff’s Office was alerted to the incident on Tuesday after Peoria County Animal Protective Services positioned a lifeless cat in a highway within the 19300 block of West Route 150.
Peoria deputies have been additionally made conscious of a Snapchat video the suspect had made on Monday evening wherein he recorded himself throwing the cat out of a car window whereas touring at a excessive charge of velocity.
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“Witnesses got here ahead throughout the investigation and shared the video with deputies and said the cat initially belong to somebody that moved overseas and the cat was handed to the 16-year-old male by means of a mutual buddy to ‘do away with,'” the Peoria Sheriff’s Department stated in a information launch.
The teenager admitted to police in an interview on Wednesday that they threw the cat out the window of a car, killing it.
They have been booked into the juvenile detention heart and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and depiction of animal cruelty.
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