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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 they found the parakeet dead inside the smashed cardboard box Wayne County Prosecutors charged Cheha...

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 we're thinking his bird did it to it or another animal might have done something to the bird so my brother said there's nothing we can do for you with the bird, now," Rick Simms, the owner of the pet sto...

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 don't understand why he did it, and I don't think we'll ever know," Allen Park Police Detective Stephen Lazuka said Tuesday morning. "I can't 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 Critter Pet Shop seeking to return the $30 parakeet. He seemed angry. Shop owner Michael Simms of...

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 you credit, you can get anything in the store and I’ll make sure the bird is OK.’ With how irate ...

“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 Wick’s Traveling Stanzas project that fuses poetry with everyday life. David Hassler, director o...