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PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\nPittsburgh man accused of stabbing dog multiple times after argument inside apartment<\/p>\n
PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n
A man is accused of stabbing a dog multiple times after having an argument with a woman inside a Pittsburgh apartment.<\/p>\n
Authorities were called to an apartment on Sheffield Street for a man who was holding down a dog and stabbing it on the front stoop of the home.<\/p>\n
According to police, when they arrived, Corey Hayward was kneeling and holding down the dog named Champ, stating that the “dog needs to be put down.”<\/p>\n
Officials say the dog appeared to have multiple deep lacerations.<\/p>\n
Officers say they spoke with Champ’s owner who they said was visibly upset, crying and screaming. <\/p>\n
Champ’s owner told officers she had locked Champ in a bathroom when she began to argue with Hayward, who she said was intoxicated and making statements about the devil. <\/p>\n
During their argument, Hayward allegedly walked over to the bathroom and opened the door. <\/p>\n
Hayward allegedly taunted the dog and began to swing the blade in front of him. <\/p>\n
Champ’s owner said when she saw the dog bleeding, she ran from the apartment and asked a neighbor to call 911. <\/p>\n
When talking with police about the incident, Hayward claimed the dog attacked him first after Hayward let him out of the bathroom. He did not give a reason why he let the dog out of the bathroom.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Hayward was the aggressor in the situation and he was taken into custody. <\/p>\n
According to the criminal complaint, Champ’s owner did not have a vehicle and had to abandon the dog to animal control so he could be taken to an emergency hospital. <\/p>\n
It was required for her to abandon the dog in order for animal control to transport it to a hospital. <\/p>\n
Hayward is facing charges of aggravated cruelty of animals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man accused of stabbing dog multiple times after argument inside apartment PITTSBURGH \u2014 A man is accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26950,110268,77494,694,110270,110266,110265,8467,2590,110271,39496,110267,110272,110269,110273,28,73,75,74,206,110264,110274],"class_list":["post-259879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-911-call","tag-aggravated-cruelty","tag-animal-control","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-apartment-argument","tag-champ","tag-corey-hayward","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-custody","tag-deep-lacerations","tag-dog-attack","tag-dog-stabbing","tag-emergency-hospital","tag-front-stoop","tag-intoxicated","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-police","tag-sheffield-street","tag-woman-argument"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259879","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=259879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}