South Bend, Indiana – A 23-year-old Indiana man has been arrested and charged for killing multiple kittens. As reported by WVPE News, Tyler Coday was arrested at his apartment by officers conducting a welfare check.
Coday allegedly answered the door of his Irish Hills apartment and told officers that he had been doing things he “was not proud of,” and said, “some cats were hurt.”
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When asked where the cats were, Coday told officers they were dead, and in a trash can. Officers found two deceased kittens in the kitchen trash container.
Three other living cats were still in the house, prompting officers to call Coday’s roommate, who was working out of state. The roommate told the authorities that Coday had killed two other cats for being playful.
Coday is charged with four Level 6 felony counts of torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal. He was booked, without bond, into the St. Joseph County Jail. The surviving cats were taken in by the South Bend Animal Resource Center.
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