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Horrific moment animal abuser punches and stomps his injured parakeet to death after Detroit pet store owner refused to give him $30 refund Ali Chehade, 22, of Dearborn, was arrested for allegedly killing a parakeet after a May 18 confrontation with a cashier at Critter Pet Shop in Allen Park   Chehade is caught on surveillance footage violently snapping, smashing the box with the bird inside before stomping on it twice in a rage before fleeing the store  When police arrived at the pet shop ...

Man Stomps Bird to Death in Pet Store After Being Denied Refund On 5/25/21 at 6:53 AM EDT A man was caught on camera brutally stomping a parakeet to death inside a Michigan pet store last week. The 22-year-old was attempting to return the $30 bird to the Critter Pet Shop in Allen Park, southwest of Detroit, when a staff member noticed the pet was injured. "We saw the whole wing was bloody. So were thinking his bird did it to it or another animal might have done something to the bird so my broth...

Detroit Free Press Authorities are investigating — and likely to charge — a man with felony animal cruelty after they said he smashed and then stomped on a blue parakeet in an Allen Park pet shop. "I dont understand why he did it, and I dont think well ever know," Allen Park Police Detective Stephen Lazuka said Tuesday morning. "I cant imagine what the people who were shopping there would think seeing something like that happen." Police said a 22-year-old Dearborn man walked into Critt...

Man stomps bird to death after Allen Park pet store didn’t give $30 refund 22-year-old man facing animal abuse charge Updated:  Tags:  ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Critter Pet Shop has been a mainstay in Allen Park for 43 years. Last week, a 22-year-old Dearborn man came into the store with a parakeet that he wanted to return. The man appeared irate and wanted a $30 refund for the parakeet. Owner Michael Simms was behind the counter. “I calmed him down and continued to tell him, ‘I’ll give y...

“We had plans.  "We were going places,” poet Naomi Shihab Nyes wrote in her opening stanza of “Dear Vaccine.” Her words serve as both invitation and inspiration for others to share their pandemic hopes, grief, humor and insight on an interactive community project called the Global Vaccine Poem. The collaboration between the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and the University of Arizona Poetry Center aims to create meaning from hardship, spread vaccine awareness and build on...

students receive Honors College pin YOUNGSTOWN — Local students are among the nearly 400 Youngstown State University honors students who have received their Honors College pin. The award signifies that students have earned at least half of the honors credits needed prior to graduation. Pin recipients include: Branson Brownfield, Biology major of Lisbon Lucas Call, Nursing BSN major of Wellsville Madison Chapman, Business Administration major of Columbiana Kathryn Chludzinski, STEM First Year ...