Andrea Rosebrock 
A 17-year-old Sedalia, MO teen, Cody C. Paxton, has been charged with stealing, a class C felony, and animal abuse, a class D felony after he shot a neighbor’s sheltie-mix dog in its kennel last Thursday. The “stealing” charge comes from depriving the dog owner of his “property” by killing the dog.
This twisted case is full of discrepancies on the teen’s part. First he tells the neighbor that someone was shooting at him and when the neighbor invited Paxton in and offered to call the police, Paxton declined and said he had his own gun. After Paxton left, that was when the neighbor discovered his dog shot.
Confronted by police Paxton told several different stories, none of them including “someone shooting at him.” He said that is was an accident, he said he never saw the dog.
When police searched the home, they found a shotgun that had been recently fired and a spent shell as well as shells in the wooded area behind the house.
“Based on the discrepancies between (the neighbor’s) story and Cody’s story, most notable Cody’s initial failure to mention to me that he had been shot at minute earlier, I believed that Cody was attempting to mislead me regarding his behavior,” Patrolman Sean Hiatt wrote in his statement.
Paxton was booked into Pettis County Jail Friday on a $10k bond.
I just don’t even know what to say! A kid running around with a loaded shotgun!! Do we see a problem here? And using an innocent little dog as taget practice or a game or whatever the punk was doing! Then to actually go to the neighbor’s house… what the hell was he thinking, or was he even thinking. This kid’s got some problems and needs some serious help!
I’m not anti-gun but putting a gun in the hands of a 17-year-old and allowing them to have it without supervision is just nuts!! Teens are knows for often outrageous behavior and when you combine that with a loaded gun, it’s lucky that a person was not shot. As it is an innocent life was viciously taken. What is wrong with people??
Sedalia is about an hour from me. We have done work there, and have a good friend with a business there. It has always had that “small town” feel as everyone seems to go out of their way to help you. It’s a pity that these things happen anywhere at all, but a little more shocking from a small friendly town. I am quite concerned, and scared, of what this world will be like by the time my grandson grows up. With each generation there seems to be less accountability, and almost no conscience. I’m saddened that one of God’s innocent creatures served as this little demon’s entertainment.
This POS has some serious problems. He needs to be put in an institution. Where are his parents? Maybe they just figure it’s okay, they need to be held accountable too.
Oh Gig, I am with you on that one. Things just get worse and worse every day.My heart just breaks and breaks, and I don’t know when the tears will stop for every needless loss of these poor souls.I think one day in the not too distant future, him upstairs is going to say enough is enough, and give this world back to the original owners, the animals. And who could blame him, because the majority of the human race is blowing it big time where his innocent creatures are concerned.
I have just about had enough of the cruelty and horror that the human race bestows on these poor mites. And tonight I think this is the straw that broke the camels back,I officially give up on humanity.( All supporters of this site excluded of course. I know where your hearts lay )
Again another story of animal abuse by a teen ager, what is wrong the the children of today. You know when people let their children stop saying yes mam and no mam, the world started going to hell in a hand basket, no respect for anything,,most of all themselves. They are taught to argue, do not take responsibility , nothing is their fault, and oh, the worse thing of all, those horrible violent games they play. They do not mind killing, they have learned it early and who lets them, good ole mom and dad. Thank goodness there are still good kids in the world and maybe if they survive long enough they will be the leaders of tomorrow and will do something about violence and cruelty to animals, and the world. Poor little babies have to pay the price in the meantime, isn’t the way its always been all through history.
Yeh, he needs help alright. A one way ticket to Hell! Now adays in my book they are no longer kids when they do something cold blooded and mean : (
I think the problem with the young teens of today is that they have no restrictions on their actions, no supervision, or semblance of family. The parents either don’t give a damn, are too damn busy with their own lives/work, or they bail their baby out of trouble all the time. (the syndrome where their child can do no wrong) There are no repurcussions for any of their actions, and this is the youth that will lead our nation in the future? God help us all.
This story made me so upset, I had to walk away from it for a couple days. This young adult needs to sit in jail for a hell of a long time and get some psycological help, big time.