Steven McKinney. {BSO}
By Kevin Deutsch
A Coral Springs man was charged with aggravated animal cruelty after he admitted to stabbing a pet dog to death, nearly decapitating the canine before cutting his neck, court records show.
“I killed Katie [the dog],” Steven Mckinney, 58, allegedly admitted after Coral Springs Police arrived at his residence in the area of 5200 Northwest 58th Terrace on Feb. 13, according to an arrest affidavit.
He told police he was high on LSD and fentanyl at the time of the crime, leading to a mental breakdown, the affidavit states.
Mckinney attacked the dog around 9 a.m., severing most of her head from her neck, records state. Her spine and tendons were also severed, according to police. Officers found the dead dog soaked in blood in a dog bed on the residence’s back patio, her eyes still open, police said. Her head was just barely held to her body by a small piece of skin on the neck area, records state.
A witness in the apartment told police he had awakened to the sound of the dog crying and yelping loudly in fear. The man had looked out onto the patio and seen Mckinney “twisting and wrenching” the dog’s neck, trying to decapitate her while the canine was still alive, the affidavit states.
“I lost it, I killed Katie,” a roommate allegedly heard Mckinney say afterward.
Another man in the residence called the police to report the animal’s killing. At that point, Mckinney picked up the knife he’d placed next to the dog and cut his neck, police said.
One of the witnesses took the knife from Mckinney and applied pressure to his neck wound until officers arrived, police said.
A roommate in the residence told police Mckinney recently claimed to be detoxing from fentanyl and had diagnosed himself with multiple personality disorder, the affidavit states.
At the hospital, Mckinney confessed his crime to a detective and said he’d been high on LSD and fentanyl during the attack, police said.
He was being held at the North Broward Bureau Jail Sunday on a $75,000 bond, records show.
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