Fries, VA – A Virginia man is facing charges for stealing his neighbor’s dog and beating their pet to death. As reported by WDBJ News, Alexander Davis, Jr. admitted to the police that he took the dog, Ghost, and beat him to death. Davis Jr. claims that the killing is in response to the death of his chickens.
He explained his motive, telling Ghost’s owners that he took their dog:
“because he found his chickens dead a few days prior and believed they took his dead chickens and ‘hauled them off’. He said when he [saw] their dog, he ‘killed him and hauled him off too’.”
Ghost’s owner said that he disappeared on December 21. She found him a day later, bloodied in a discarded Amazon box.
Ghost’s body underwent a necropsy to determine the cause of death. The report states that the dog died from blunt force trauma to the head and that:
“the dog was alive, and most likely conscious, for all the blows to the head.”
When Davis Jr. was arrested, he admitted to the deputy that he killed Ghost and stated that “he wished it wouldn’t have came down to it.”
Ghost’s killer is facing a felony animal larceny charge and a misdemeanor animal cruelty charge. He has already been released from jail.
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