DELTONA, Fla. – A Deltona man is behind bars after deputies say he beat his canine with a sequence and fought bystanders who tried to cease him, and it was all caught on digital camera.
Raymon Prush was at Circle Ok on Elkcam Boulevard and Lake Helen Osteen Highway on Thursday afternoon when he says he witnessed the person hitting the canine within the face.
“I do not perceive why anyone might try this. It is simply heartbreaking,” he stated.
He determined to step in and cease the person, recognized by the Volusia Sheriff’s Workplace as 31-year-old Jose Rivera, from hurting the canine any additional.
Video taken by witnesses reveals Prush confronting Rivera as he continues to whip the canine with the chain.
“I might by no means see myself ever doing that to my finest good friend, who’s there to guard me and my household,” Prush stated.
That is when he says, and the video proves, different bystanders try to protect the canine from Rivera. However the mayhem did not cease there.
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“I wasn’t going to let anyone get harm, so I put myself in between. He hit me within the face on this facet, I suppose, to attempt to knock me down. That is after I yoked him as much as get him to cease being violent,” Prush stated.
In accordance with VSO, a complete of 9 bystanders tried to get Rivera beneath management earlier than deputies arrived. A minimum of 4 of them, together with Prush, have been harm.
Courtroom information present Rivera has a historical past of violence, together with a number of convictions for battery and home violence.
Prush remains to be making an attempt to grasp how somebody might harm their very own pet.
“We deal with them as kids. They dwell with us. They eat with us. They sleep with us. They’re wonderful issues, and no one deserves, nor any animal deserves, to get hit like that within the face, particularly with a steel chain,” he stated. “I simply do not perceive how anyone might try this to one thing that is so particular.”
Rivera is dealing with a number of expenses. A decide set Rivera’s bond at $51,000.
As for the canine’s situation, deputies say it suffered cuts and different accidents and is now within the care of another person.
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