Andrea Rosebrock 
Update 1/7/09 – Man Gets One Year Jail Sentence for Brutal Sword Killing of Pitbull
Yet once again a pitbull is the innocent victim of a man’s brutality. Robert A. Young, 46, of the 2600 block of Darley Lane, Chesapeake, VA, was seen outside his home at Chesapeake Mobile Home Park Sunday with a sword and his pitbull. He went inside his home and when he came back out about 15 minutes later he had the body of the dog which he dumped in an outside trash disposal. Young had killed the dog with the sword.
Neighbors said that Young had been acting weird with the sword and dog and the dog was clearly terrified.
“He had a sword out and he was rubbing his dog with the sword. Then he told the dog to get in the house and he followed the dog in with the sword,” said neighbor Cynthia Montgomery.
“The dog was shaking like he knew something was getting ready to happen,” said Al Bundy, who lives a few doors down. “All of a sudden he takes it inside and kills it.”
“There was blood everywhere,” said one extremely upset neighbor.
“It’s just freaking weird,” said another.
“People heard the dog yelping as he cut him up,” said neighbor Sabrina Cowles.
Right now, there’s no explanation for why Young killed the dog but police report that he was intoxicated. A neighbor called the police after seeing Young dump the dog’s body.
Police arrived and determined that the dog had been killed with the sword, Young was arrested and charged with felony animal cruelty. He was also charged without having up to date rabies vaccination for the dog or dog license.
Neighbors were shocked and mobile park owner said that Young had lived there for only a short time with his wife. No other animals or persons were at Young’s residence.
One neighbor commented how nice and gentle the pitbull was.
OH yeah, nice guy… get drunk… play with sword… kill dog. Now he’s a real benefit to our society and such a positive influence!! Hope to God he doesn’t have any kids or if he does they don’t follow in his footsteps.
I can’t believe someone could be so heartless!! How could he kill a sweet, innocent dog!! Someone should kill his stupid ass!! I hope he gets all the charges he can, that poor dog suffered at his hands and died a horrible death!! If it were up to me, he’d get the death penalty!!
This is simple, we need to change the laws state wide. Until we work on changing laws together, this will probably continue. People are cruel and just plain sick. This disgusts me to think I actually live among these individuals!
not even a week after sam,now this
give me that man,i make sure to get my sword
What is going on with all these wackos killing dogs? This man, along with all the rest of these nut cases, need to sit in jail for a hell of a long time and think about what they have done. Personally I do not think he would be well liked by the rest of the inmates.
We all have to keep pushing to have much stricter animal cruelty/abuse laws. This sob along with all the rest of them, they guy killing the 5 lb dog because it was going to attack his 100 # lab, and Freddie Mock should all sit in jail together and never come out to see the light of day again. Being intoxicated has no bearing on this issue. There has to be some underlying issues for a man to get drunk and kill as he has.
Let me at him with a sword. Hurt a dog, kill a dog – you do not want to be around me. I’m like a mama bear protecting her cubs, and all animals are my cubs.
I will never understand why people do the heinous things they do (especially to animals, who can’t fight back). I hope this sicko gets the maximum punishment he can get.
I have three Pit Bulls and they are very sweet and loving. This makes me sick.
Rubbing the dog with the sword!!! It sound’s like he got pleasure out of terrifying this poor soul. Why does no one step up when something like this happen’s the neighbor’s listened to the dog yelping!!A crime is being commited dam it you just look and listen MOVE HELP DO SOMETHING!!!!! You have a weapon do a citizen arrest!!This just hit’s my core that poor soul was brutally murdered by that psychopath Barbarian! Where was his wife or anyone else in the family they are just as GUILTY if they stood by.
Nina, I think you said it perfectly. I try to be “nice” on my posts, but what you said was just perfect.
My family gets mad at me, only for my safety, when I step in when I see something I do not feel comfortable with with any animal. Even our neighbors with their tethering of their little poodle. Sorry, not in my book. But as you say, why didn’t the neighbors do something? If they saw him rubbing the sword on the dog, why did they not call the police then, reporting that the man was drunk, and explaining.
Sounds like this guy was more than just drunk. This is the sort of thing you hear about meth addicts doing. In the end it doesn’t excuse him, though.