SAN ANTONIO – A 47-year-old man is facing a felony charge after investigators say he beat his French bulldog to death and buried the dog’s body in the backyard of a Bexar County home.<\/p>\n
Deputies were called just after 4 p.m. Thursday to a home off Amberina near Marbach Road on the Far West Side after receiving a report of possible animal cruelty. The caller told authorities a man had repeatedly struck a dog before burying it.<\/p>\n
When deputies arrived, they spoke with a witness who identified the suspect as Erik Estrada.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, Estrada became involved in a disturbance on Wednesday and grew angry before repeatedly striking his 2-year-old French bulldog in the head. Investigators said the dog was then left outside for several hours.<\/p>\n
The dog’s condition worsened over time and it died from its injuries early the following morning, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Estrada buried the dog in the backyard, where deputies later located the animal’s remains during the investigation.<\/p>\n
Estrada was arrested and charged with cruelty to a non-livestock animal torture, a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n
Officials encourage anyone who witnesses or suspects animal cruelty to report it to the Bexar County Animal Crime Enforcement Unit by emailing ACE@bexar.org or calling (210) 335-6000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – A 47-year-old man is facing a felony charge after investigators say he beat his French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-393421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}