OCOTILLO — The space outdoors the Red Feather Off-Road Market & Cafe on North Imperial Highway right here acquired somewhat redder after a grotesque incident wherein an Ocotillo man allegedly stabbed and killed a canine earlier than stabbing that canine’s proprietor on Friday night time, Dec. 1.
Arrested on suspicion of assault with a lethal weapon and suspicion of intentional cruelty/the killing of an animal was 40-year-old Edwin Leonard Woolley, who was held briefly in Imperial County jail on $25,000 bail earlier than posting bond on Saturday morning, Dec. 2.
Woolley was recognized because the suspect within the stabbing of the canine proprietor when California Highway Patrol officers pulled over the sufferer on Interstate 8 close to In-Ko-Pah Park Road round 9 p.m. Friday, Imperial County sheriff’s Lt. Clint Erro stated. Apparently the sufferer had misplaced a lot blood from his stab wound or wounds that he was driving erratically sufficient to be stopped, in line with Erro.
Deputies realized that Woolley’s canine and the sufferer’s canine have been in the identical space and commenced to combat with one another. To break them up or cease them, Woolley allegedly stabbed the opposite canine to dying, and when that canine’s proprietor was close by — it wasn’t clear if he was making an attempt to intervene — Woolley allegedly then stabbed him, Erro stated.
That is when the sufferer acquired in his car and left towards San Diego, Erro stated.
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Information of the sufferer’s situation was not available; Erro solely knew that he was taken to an area hospital.
Erro wasn’t sure whether or not the canine had died within the incident, however an worker who answered the cellphone on the Red Feather cafe on Monday, Dec. 4 said an Imperial County animal management car had responded to the scene late Friday night time, and an Imperial County Public Health Department public info officer confirmed animal management was there to select up the stays of the canine.
