Orange County, California – An Orange County man faces more than eight years in prison for an act of animal cruelty that claimed the life of a pregnant dog. According to a press release from the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, 58-year-old Eric Lyn Holliday killed a small white dog, believed to be a six-year-old Maltese, on the morning of December 1.
A surveillance camera captured the horrifying incident. The DA’s office recounts the details:
On Monday, December 1, 2025, at about 7:35 a.m., surveillance video captured a Ford Expedition driving into the alley in the 600 block of S. Brookhurst Street in Anaheim. A man, later identified as Holliday, is seen getting out of the driver’s door holding a white rope and proceeding to loop one end of the rope around a yellow parking bollard and the other end of the rope onto the tow hitch ball of the Ford Expedition.
Holliday is then seen taking a milk crate which contained a small white dog out of the passenger side of the vehicle and looping the center of the rope around the dog’s neck and tilting the crate for the dog to walk out. Holliday is seen getting back into the driver’s seat of the vehicle, accelerating forward to tighten the rope around the dog’s neck, snapping the animal’s neck.
Holliday can be seen exiting his vehicle to look at the dog and then drives away, leaving her broken body behind. According to the DA, the dog suffered a severed spine and arteries.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer commented on the vile act:
“There is a special place in hell for people who abuse animals. This was not an act of rage. This was a clear plan to kill a defenseless animal, and when he executed his plan, he drove off, leaving the animal’s body in the alley for someone else to discover the horror of what he had done. Only someone who is pure evil could engage in such reprehensible conduct, and we will ensure the Court clearly understands what this individual is capable of and the threat he poses to public safety before any sentence is imposed. Violence against animals will never be tolerated, and every act of animal abuse will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
At the time of the dog’s killing, Holliday was on probation for attacking a co-worker with a metal pipe. That incident resulted in a felony charge for assault with force. Holliday now faces a maximum sentence of eight years and four months for the felony animal cruelty charge and the felony possession of a hard drug with two or more prior convictions. He faces an additional maximum sentence of four years and eight months for violating his probation.
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