A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly beat his roommate’s pet raccoon and threatened to kill the roommate and a neighbor.
Tevin Williams, 31, had held a sewing needle to his neighbor’s neck and threatened to kill him earlier than repeatedly hitting the raccoon and taking pictures it with a BB gun on December 14.
Deputies with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 name at round 5:30 p.m. on December 14. When deputies arrived on the scene, they met Williams’ roommate.
The roommate stated when she arrived residence from work, Williams hopped off his scooter, approached her automobile and commenced punching the car whereas additionally telling her, “I’m going to kill you,” in accordance to an arrest affidavit obtained by Law & Crime.
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Tevin Williams
(Lake County Sheriff’s Office)
She was in a position to get out of her automobile and over to a neighbor’s home. A neighbor then knowledgeable her that Williams had killed her pet raccoon.
Williams’ roommate advised deputies she saved her raccoon in a kennel exterior close to the again of their home. A deputy walked across the exterior of the house and located the hammer believed to have been used on the raccoon.
The deputy then went to the rear of the house and positioned the animal and a bloody mat. The raccoon, nonetheless, was nonetheless respiratory.
The affidavit additionally states {that a} male neighbor advised deputies he was sitting on his porch when Williams came visiting, put a sewing needle to his throat and “told him that he was going to kill him.”
Tevin Williams was arrested and charged
(Lake County Sheriff’s Office)
The man stated he then went again into his home and that Williams adopted him inside. The man additionally stated Williams had killed the raccoon by “hitting it with a hammer and shooting the animal with a BB gun on its neck,” in accordance to the affidavit.
A witness confirmed to deputies that he noticed Williams stroll up to the male neighbor’s porch and level a sewing needle to his neck.
Williams was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a lethal weapon and one rely of aggravated animal cruelty, all of that are third-degree felonies punishable by a most of 5 years in state jail.
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Lake County Sheriff’s Office
(Lake County Sheriff’s Office)
He was booked into the Lake County Jail on December 14 however was launched three days later after posting a $6,000 bond.
A decide issued a courtroom order prohibiting Williams from having any contact with the victims and that he should keep a minimum of 500 toes away from them.
Williams’ arraignment is scheduled for January 9.