Many witnesses informed WINK News this was the most uncomfortable and gut-wrenching thing they have actually ever seen.
A dog was dragged by a pickup from Lake Worth Avenue to Durant Street for about half a mile.
“A little about this big, just a little dog,” Veteran Jaime Boyle said, beginning to weep.
Boyle saw the scary event. He informed WINK News even through all the wars he’s remained in, this was without a doubt the worst thing he has actually seen.
“Because you know, you’re fighting an enemy. Of course. They’re causing harm to everybody. But when you got an innocent animal just an innocent animal trying to keep up because they can’t untie themselves from that. It’s ridiculous. It’s just it’s, it’s really bad. I’m sorry. I am,” Boyle said.
The video footage was captured on next-door neighbors’ security video cameras Thursday early morning. When they saw that video footage —
“I was disgusted, appalled. It’s the blood on the street was horrific. And it’s for someone to do this to an animal and act as uncaring as he did is unforgivable, in my opinion,” Hinchley said.
“You see the drag mark out there were pretty horrific,” Todd Tyler said. Tyler is a next-door neighbor who occurred to see the scary while watching out his window.
He revealed WINK News the track of blood from where it began to where it ended.
“Started pretty far away. Down Hotlink Street, which is all the way down to Ackerman Tech right on Aquaman down,” Tyler said. “Yeah, you can also see where the dog stood up and tried to run, you know, bloody paw prints and stuff where it was trying to keep up.”
“My buddy goes, ‘Oh, my God, he’s dragging a dog.’ So I look back. So we stopped, put it in reverse. Got him to stop, and then he bends down and picks the dog. The dog had already passed away,” Boyle said. “And that’s gonna be in my brain for the rest of my life, watching that.”
Charlotte County Officials state the truck seemed a 2009-14 Gray Ford F-150 STX extended taxi with a ladder rack.
Anyone who acknowledges the truck is asked to call Charlotte County Public Safety at
941-833-5600 or Animal Control at 941-833-5690.
