In a statement to the police, the suspect of dragging a dog to death with his car claimed to have been drunk at the time of the crime; guardian remains hospitalized after heart attack | Presidente Prudente and Region

According to the police report registered by one of the animal’s owners, aged 64, on Wednesday night (17), the boy was with his son at the neighboring family’s house, located in the Watanabe Housing Complex. According to the owners, residents of the neighborhood already knew that the dog was skittish, which is why they reiterated the warning to the boy, as he was with the child.

At one point, due to an alleged sudden gesture by the boy, the dog, of undefined breed (SRD), called Gabriel, advanced towards the child, at which point the father put his arm in front of him and ended up being bitten.

To the police, the investigator said that his son’s face and ear were injured, and that the dog’s 65-year-old owner herself had bandaged the boy, after offering to take father and son to the Santa Casa de Mercy of the city to receive medical care, “help that was provided by the man”.

The report detailed that, some time later, the person involved took a bag containing fish meat to the neighboring family’s house, however, the Civil and Military Environmental Police suspect that the contents delivered were wild meat, “possibly from alligator ”. To g1, delegate Adalberto Gonini, responsible for the investigations, said that the material is being analyzed by experts.

Around 2:30 am the other day, after drinking alcohol, the person under investigation admitted that he opened the gate of the front house and called the animal, which responded to the acquaintance’s command and went out into the street. At this point, the boy would have tied a rope to the animal’s neck, placed it inside the car, on the front passenger seat, and tied the other end of the rope to the vehicle’s handbrake.

His intention, as the Civil Police told g1, was to take the dog to a site area, but the movement of the General Euclides de Oliveira Figueiredo Highway, the Integration Highway (SP-563), which he was traveling on, caused that the driver “did not notice the moment when the dog jumped out of the car window and was left hanging by the rope”. The suspect only realized that the animal had died when he stopped the vehicle, towards the Cecap neighborhood, leaving it there.

“Now, we are waiting to receive the forensic report, referring to the analysis of the meat given by the suspect to the family, and also the testimony of the guardian. After that, we will refer the investigation to the Judiciary”, emphasized G1 Gonini.

Corporal Evandro Sanches Torquato, from the Environmental Military Police Company, informed the g1 report, this Thursday, that the person involved has already been fined R$6,000 for the mistreatment and death of the dog.

The day after the incident, the owner noticed that the animal was no longer in the yard. According to the Environmental Police, she went to a neighbor’s house and, together, they went to the boy’s residence, who claimed to have given the dog to a friend.

When asked about the donation without the owner’s authorization, he confessed that he killed the dog. According to the bulletin, the suspect’s wife stated that she was not at home that day, but that “the husband confessed to the guardian that he had killed the dog”.

According to what he informed the Environmental Police, the boy “took an unknown route and, before leaving, said that he had sought a lawyer, and that, when he was summoned, he would appear at the police station”.

Also according to the Environmental Police, the supposed body of the animal was found by a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) in the municipality.

To g1, delegate Sthefano Rabecini informed that the animal’s owner had heart problems and, after the incident, needed to be hospitalized at Santa Casa de Presidente Venceslau.

In contact with g1, Josiane Prates, the owner’s daughter-in-law, said that her mother-in-law was given the dog by her granddaughter, after facing depression caused by her son’s death.

“He was like a son to her. Always very well treated. She even gave him food on a fork,” she recalled.

According to the daughter-in-law, who visited the elderly woman while still in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where she was sent after being admitted to the Emergency Room, the boy, with whom she had always had a friendly relationship, even went to the neighbor’s house “to ask for forgiveness”. However, on one of these occasions, he ended up being expelled by her.

That same day, she reportedly went to a commercial establishment, where she heard people say that “the suspect was bragging about having killed the animal”. After that, she suffered a heart attack and had to be hospitalized.

Still according to her daughter-in-law, the elderly woman was transferred, last Tuesday morning (23), to the Regional Hospital (HR), in Presidente Prudente (SP), where she underwent a catheterization.

In a note to g1, the hospital reported this Thursday (25) that the patient was admitted to the unit’s Emergency Room at 8:24 am on April 23, “where she was promptly attended to by the medical and multidisciplinary team”.

“At this moment, his health status is considered stable”, he pointed out.

Also this Thursday, Josiane Prates informed the g1 report that her mother-in-law is awaiting analysis of the tests she carried out by the medical team.

“The doctor wants to know if you need a coronary stent. Now, she is in the emergency room at the Emergency Room, because she does not have a place in the coronary ward”, she highlighted.

In audio messages sent exclusively to g1 by Maria Magnalda’s daughter-in-law, the dog’s guardian, the elderly woman recalled the day she found out about the death of her four-legged companion.

“I thought he [suspeito] I was going to release Gabriel [cão] somewhere. So much so that, in the morning, when I went to his house to find out about his hand and the boy [filho], I asked him where the dog was, that’s when he sent an audio to a friend, saying that he had left the dog at his house. So I said: ‘for God’s sake, let’s go’, and he replied: ‘no, leave him there’. I insisted and said I would put fuel in his car to go get it. […]. When he realized that the business was going to ‘stink’ for him, he started asking for my forgiveness and crying.”

For her, the worst thing was not the dog’s death, because, “sooner or later, he was going to die”, but rather the way the suspect, a family friend, did it.

“The barbarity he did cannot be forgiven,” concluded the elderly woman.

g1 contacted the defendant’s defense, represented by lawyer Carlos Alberto Toro, but she preferred not to comment.