Kitten paralyzed, abused and placed in street to die after being shot, tree coons charged

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Kitten paralyzed, abused and placed in street to die after being shot, police say. Three charged in heinous crime caught on video.


August 03, 2021

HOLLYWOOD — Three neighbors were arrested after one of them shot an 8-week-old kitten with a pellet gun, and then they all tried to cover it up, Hollywood police said Monday.

The apartment’s handyman told police he saw the stray kitten injured on the sidewalk the morning of the shooting. Ivey told the handyman that a dog attacked the kitten, according to Ivey’s probable cause affidavit.

When the maintenance worker watched the video, he told police he saw Ivey holding a “long rifle with a scope,” and Huntley and Joazile walking around the courtyard.
Lawrence Ivey, Jamarlin Kenyatta Huntley and Walkenssia Joazile are facing charges of aggravated animal cruelty and tampering with evidence after Ivey shot a kitten with a pellet gun and Huntley and Joazile attempted to hide the evidence, Hollywood police say. (Hollywood Police Department)

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The surveillance video shows Joazile walk over to the kitten and appeared to kick it. Huntley then walked over to the kitten and swept it with a broom through the parking lot and into the street, leaving it there to be run over, the affidavit said.

The kitten had to be euthanized because of the severity of her injuries, the affidavit says. X-rays showed broken metallic fragments from the pellet caused several spinal fractures, leaving the kitten unable to use its back limbs, a veterinarian at the VCA Hollywood Animal Hospital told police.

Ivey is charged with aggravated animal cruelty. He also was charged separately with selling cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, childcare facility or park, court records show. He remains in the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach.

Huntley is charged with aggravated animal cruelty and tampering with evidence. Joazile is charged with tampering with evidence. They both posted bond.
 
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