The 16-year-old girl came home to find flowers, her dog’s collar and a note next to her front door.
Also there, under a towel and inside a trash bag with its head and front legs sticking out was the body of Jordan, the girl’s 1-year-old Shih Tzu mix. An electrical cord was wound around its neck.
Her boyfriend, suspicious that she was with another guy, had been calling and texting her in a jealous rage, threatening to kill the pup he bought her a year ago if she wasn’t home by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
Lawrence Graham, 19, made good on his promise, detectives said, and now faces six felony counts of animal cruelty. He was arrested Wednesday night.
The North Lauderdale man told investigators he was mad when he went to his girlfriend’s Pompano Beach home and she wasn’t there, so he kicked the dog, slammed it on the ground and put it in a plastic trash bag, according to an arrest report.
When the tiny curly-headed dog scratched a hole in the bag, Graham choked it. Jordan died while Graham waited for his girlfriend to come home, the report said.
Graham wrote a note and left it for his girlfriend next to the dead dog, the collar and flowers. It said, “Coulda Made It RIP Jordan,” the sheriff’s office said.
Graham, who works at Coconut Creek High School, next shot off a few guilt-laden text messages to his girlfriend, his arrest report said..
“okwen u get home he dead”; “if u really loved him u woulda made it in time 2 save him”; “hope it was worth it”
When Graham went before a Broward County judge at his first-appearance hearing Thursday morning, his mother was there.
Through tears, she told the judge she “did not raise that type of son.”
Jealous teen kills girlfriend's pup and leaves it in trash bag at her door, cops say
Lawrence Chaz, 19, called and texted his girlfriend in a jealous rage, finally killing the pup he bought her a year ago, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
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