Dog stabbed, hacked to death with knife Jacksonville, FL (US) Incident Date: Monday, Mar 19, 2007 County: Duval Local Map: available Disposition: Convicted Charges: Felony CTA Abuser/Suspect: Jason Kyan Knox Case Updates: 2 update(s) available

Case ID: 11062 Classification: Stabbing Animal: dog (non pit-bull) View more cases in FL (US) Login to Watch this Case

Police have charged a Jacksonville man with animal cruelty after a 13-year-old boy led them to a grisly scene behind a Colbert Drive mobile home.

Beneath a pile of blood-soaked leaves, police and an animal control officer found the decomposing remains of a dog the boy said he watched being hacked with a large knife.

Police were at the residence March 19 after the boy's mother called them and said she was threatened by her boyfriend, who told her he would "cut your head off like I did that dog's head last week," according to a Sheriff's Office report.

Jason Kyan Knox, 29, of Louisiana Street was arrested at the mobile home after the woman said a box cutter was held to her neck while she and Knox were in her car.

While police were there, the woman's son said he followed her boyfriend when he took a dog into the woods last week.

The boy said he was told to turn around but went back when he heard the dog screaming then saw it being chopped with a large knife, according to police.

The boy told police he saw the dog's head being held down on a fallen tree branch while its neck was cut, the report said.

The report did not specify who might have owned the animal.

Knox, who ran out the back door of the residence when police arrived, was caught in the woods and charged with aggravated assault and animal cruelty that resulted in an animal's death.

Knox remained in jail Tuesday in lieu of $75,006 bail.

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Florida Times-Union - March 22, 2007

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