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ON THE PAYOFF STRAIGHT AHEAD.
THANK YOU.
HE WAS JUST A PUPPY, A
FOUR-MONTH-OLD CHIHUAHUA THAT
INVESTIGATOR SAYS WAS
DELIBERATELY KILLED BY A FLAGLER
COUNTY MAN.
HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER LEARNING
THE PUPPY SUFFERED INJURIES THAT
COULD ONLY HAVE COME FROM PLUNT
FORCE TRAUMA.
THE SUSPECT WAS DATING THE
DAUGHTER AND ALLEGEDLY KILLED
THE PUPPY WHEN NO ONE WAS HOME.
Reporter: THE INVESTIGATORS
GOT A CALL FROM SOMEONE AT THE
FLAGLER ANIMAL CLINIC AND THE
VET TOLD THE DEPUTIES WERE WERE
ASKED TO DO A NECROPSY BY THE
FAMILY AND FOUND OUT THE PUPPY
DIED A CRUEL DEATH.
OF THE HIS NAME IS LITTLE MAN OR
IT WAS, A FAMILY CHOSE THE THINK
WHAT WHAT BROUGHT HIM HOME AND
FELL IN LOVE BUT INVESTIGATORS
SAY LEFT HOME ALONE WITH A
FAMILY MEMBER'S BOYFRIEND, THE
TINY PUP ALL TWO AND A HALF
POUNDS OF HIM WAS NO MATCH FOR
WESLEY JACKSON'S RAGE.
ABSOLUTELY DISTURBING.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
YOU WILL TREAT A DOG LIKE THAT,
WOULD WHA WOULD YOU DO WITH A
CHILD?
WE WENT ON THE SUSPECT'S HOME
AND BY PHONE HIS MOTHER ASKED US
NOT TO CALL BACK BUT DEPUTIES
SAY JACKSON FIRST SAID HE FOUND
THE CHIHUAHUA AT HIS
GIRLFRIEND'S HOUSE BLEEDING FROM
THE MOUTH.
LATER HE CHANGED HIS STORY.
TO SAY HE ACCIDENTALLY STEPPED
ON THE ANIMAL.
FINALLY KOORDING TO
INVESTIGATORS, ADMITTING HE WAS
STRESSESED OUT AND WHEN THE
PUPPY JUMPED ON HIS LEG HE
KICKED HIM SO HARD THE DOG
SLAMMED INTO A TABLE.
TOTALLY FRUSTRATED WITH
SOMETHING TO WANT TO TAKE IT OUT
ON THAT SMALL DEFENSELESS
ANIMAL.
ED OWNERS DIDN'T WANT TO TALK
BUT CLEARLY DIDN'T BELIEVE
JACKSON'S ORIGINAL STORY.
PURSUED THE NECROPSY THAT
UNCOVERED DEADLY ABUSE.
HE IS CHARGED WITH FELONY ANIMAL
CRUELTY.
THE SUSPECT IS OUT OF JAIL HE
HAS BEEN COURT ORDERED NOT TO
HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH ANY
WITNESSES IN THIS CASE, THAT
MEANS NO CONTACT WITH HIS
GIRLFRIEND, OR ANYONE IN HER
FAMILY.