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Case ID: 10087
Classification: Stabbing, Throwing
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Cat stabbed to death
Kernersville, NC (US)

Incident Date: Sunday, Nov 5, 2006
County: Forsyth

Disposition: Alleged

Alleged: Kim Kenneth Kotecki

A Kernersville man faces an animal-cruelty charge after he stabbed a neighbor's cat to death. Kim Kenneth Kotecki, 42, of 312 Windsor Manor Way, Apt. H, was charged on Nov 7 with one count of animal cruelty, a Class 1 felony.

Kotecki said that he killed the cat on the night of Nov 5 because it attacked his wife, Lisa, scratching and biting her.

"An animal attacks my wife, I attack the animal, and I get arrested?" Kotecki said. "I mean, come on."

Lt. John Day of Forsyth County Animal Control gave this outline of what appears to have happened:

That night, Meghan Rumley noticed her cat, Kizzy, entering Kotecki's apartment, which is above hers. She heard some noises, then saw her cat land in some bushes, apparently thrown off the balcony.

Rumley saw someone come downstairs, grab Kizzy and take her upstairs. Then she heard yowling.

"It was awful," Rumley said yesterday. She accused Kotecki of letting the cat into his condo and believes that the cat scratched his wife after panicking, because the Koteckis' dog was there.

Day said that based on conversations with Kotecki and the reasons he gave for killing the cat, officials drew the animal-cruelty charge.

"What would be (Kotecki's) defense was that the animal scratched (his) wife. Once that occurs, going back the second time around would not be within the confines of the law," he said.

Day said that the cat was stabbed several times, with wounds to the head and tail. One of the cat's feet was nearly severed.

Kotecki plans to hire an attorney and fight the animal-cruelty charge.

In an interview, Kotecki said that the cat slipped into his house and attacked his wife, clinging to her leg and biting and scratching, drawing blood.

He also questioned if the cat had rabies. A test for rabies on Wednesday was negative.

Kotecki said that after he had thrown the cat over the balcony, the cat came back, hissing at his door, he said.

"So I grabbed a knife and I killed it," he said.

Sunday's incident was the latest neighborhood trouble at condos on Windsor Manor Way, where police have been called repeatedly in recent years, according to the police chief of Kernersville, Neal Stockton.

A separate, long dispute between the Koteckis and another neighbor, Lisa Oorbeck, led a judge last year to order Oorbeck to leave Kernersville.

After Sunday night's incident with the cat, Rumley got a temporary no-contact order against Kotecki.

References

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