A Pennsylvania man is facing charges after police said he admitted to shooting and killing a neighbor’s rooster because he was tired of it waking him up in the morning.<\/p>\n
According to Pocono Township police, officers responded to a home on Beaver Trail in Scotrun around 2:00 p.m. on July 21, 2026, after the rooster’s owner reported the animal had been shot while on the owner’s property.<\/p>\n
Police said the owner of the rooster stated that a man, later identified as Raymond Zelyez, a 63-year-old male from Scotrun, drove past his residence, got out of his truck, and shot his rooster. <\/p>\n
Officers interviewed Raymond, and he admitted to driving past the residence, shooting the rooster, and leaving in his truck, which was observed on camera, police said. <\/p>\n
Police said Raymond stated that he shot the rooster because he was tired of it waking him up in the morning. <\/p>\n
Raymond was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and recklessly endangering another person for firing a gun within a residential community with occupied structures, according to police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man is facing charges after police said he admitted to shooting and killing a neighbor’s rooster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,22133],"class_list":["post-252938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-poconos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}