SEATTLE – The man accused of shooting and killing a dog in a possible case of ‘mistaken identity’ pleaded not responsible on Monday.
Magan Yussuf, 21, was in courtroom Monday going through costs of first-degree animal cruelty, stemming from the killing of a canine in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood on April 4. According to charging paperwork filed within the King County Prosecutor’s Office, Yussuf gunned down the canine “Stevie” in the course of the road.
Stevie’s proprietor, Michelle Michaels, screamed and ran out of the home, carrying her dying canine again inside to name for assist.
“I held her till her coronary heart stopped beating,” Michaels recalled in an interview with FOX 13 News.
Yussuf instructed her that Stevie “got here at him,” in response to courtroom docs, then walked away. He pleaded not responsible in courtroom Monday, and is at present out of custody.
According to charging docs, Yussuf instructed police the canine bitten him — though he had no accidents — then stated the canine had bitten and pulled at his pants, though there was no harm to his garments, both. Officers spoke with Yussuf and his mom, and steered this may increasingly have been a case of mistaken identification.
Yussuf’s mom stated “this canine” had been terrorizing Yussuf for about 13 years, since he was walking home from faculty as a young boy, and there have been many incidents over the years, in response to courtroom docs.
The foremost drawback: Stevie was 4 years old, and Michaels had solely lived within the neighborhood for 2 or three years.
Instead, animal management reps instructed investigators that there was a home across the nook that had a number of aggressive dogs, and there had been many calls made to that home earlier than. That home was not Michaels’ home.
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Yussuf’s subsequent courtroom date is scheduled for May 22.
