In a vicious encounter, a North Carolina man approached a family dog and stabbed it to death as the owner played pickleball
A family remains in grieving and a state of shock after a man all of a sudden released an unprovoked and bloody knife attack on their precious dog – butchering the poor pooch in a public park.
James Wesley Henry, 43, was detained today for stabbing 11-year-old fluffy mixed-breed pooch Beignet to death in an attack that shocked authorities and the general public.
Henry had actually supposedly approached the dog while the owner was playing pickleball at a a public park in broad daytime. After he had actually discovered the puppy, he got it by the throat and stabbed it consistently, cops said.
He has actually been charged with felony cruelty to animals.
“The guy killed the dog with a knife, basically eviscerating it,” Asheville Police Captain Michael Lamb informed the Asheville Watchdog.
The New York Post reports that Beignet’s owner Liesbeth Mackie informed them, “she brought her dog with her to Weaver Park and protected her on a long leash in a dubious area a couple of feet far from the pickleball court.”
Mackie and the other gamers did discover a man acting unpredictably and screaming however didn’t believe much of the scenario as he wasn’t in fact troubling one, and his screaming didn’t have a target – dismissing him as the typical sort of turmoil that can take place in a public park.
It was simply minutes later on that Mackie’s pickleball partner observed the man assaulting the dog in the park, in Asheville, North Carolina.
“All of a sudden, I noticed that there was some commotion happening with her dog,” pickleball gamer Eric Hulin informed the Watchdog. “I saw the attacker, definitely with all of his strength — with what I thought at the time was a closed fist — slamming on the dog, really.”
It ended up Henry was holding a knife in his fist.
“I turned and looked at the dog, and saw its last couple of yelps and twitches,” Mr Hulin said to the outlet, including that he “can’t get the image out” of his head.
“It was covered in blood. There was blood all over. It took me a minute due to the fact that I wasn’t sure what took place,” he included.
When what took place ended up being clear, a couple of parkgoers handled to chase after Henry off however he had actually already completed dedicating the criminal activity and started to walk about rapidly, dropping the knife along the course.
The cops were called and had the ability to jail Henry with no concerns.
Henry is being kept in the Buncombe County Detention Facility on $10,000 bond.
