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Case ID: 18468
Classification: Mutilation/Torture, Shooting
Animal: dog (pit-bull)
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Chained dog tortured, shot to death
Spartanburg, SC (US)

Incident Date: Thursday, Aug 18, 2011
County: Spartanburg

Disposition: Open

Suspect(s) Unknown - We need your help!

Joyce Glenn's yard there is an empty collar attached to a chain. Just feet from there, a big pile of dirt marks her dog's final resting place.

Glenn said Outlaw, a lab/pit bull mix died very early Thursday morning in her yard along Heritage Drive in Spartanburg County.

"I kept hearing Outlaw barking and barking. I wanted to come back outside, but on this side of this house it's so dark that time of morning. So, about 4:30 was the last time I heard him bark," Glenn told News4's Mike McCormick.

Around 7 a.m. Glenn's phone rang. A neighbor called to tell her that someone had seen Outlaw dead in the yard.

"I said, 'It better not be.' It better not be him because he's tied out here on his chain," Glenn told McCormick. "Sure as the world it was my dog. Three car loads of police came and they called the crime scene. When the crime scene came, he turned him over and stuff and said it looked like a .22 (caliber) had went up in his heart, hit him up in his heart. He said it looked like somebody had taken a box cutter knife and tortured him on his arms, cut him."

Glenn said she believes what happened to Outlaw is part of a bigger plan, one that began last Saturday when her son and another man got into a fight that led to gunfire.

"They (witnesses) said the young man shot at my son seven times," said Glenn.

A few days later, her mom's dog was found dead in the road. They believe it was hit by a car, though the dog usually stayed in the yard.

"We're going to hope and pray that it was an accident," Glenn said.

Now, she's dealing with the death of her own dog.

"That was just a hurtful feeling because I had that dog ever since he was a baby. Raising Outlaw was just like raising another child. I didn't know I was that attached to that dog until I found him dead," Glenn said. "They may target us next, the parents or the adults. I think that was just a warning what they did to my dog."

Gleen said on the night her son was shot at, he was arrested on an outstanding warrant. She said she won't bail him out because she believes he's safer in jail than he is in the neighborhood.

"Even though this was a dog this time, it could have been my son," Glenn told McCormick.

According to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office, an investigator is assigned to the case but doesn't have enough evidence or information to file any charges at this time.

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