Man Charged With Brutally Killing Friend's Dog: Police

ELLICOTT CITY, MD — Howard County police officers have charged a Windsor Mill man with felony aggravated animal cruelty and other counts for stabbing his friend's dog and tying it to a tree, leaving it there to die. Corey Markus Jones, 26, of Mountain Green Circle, killed the dog at an apartment in Ellicott City where he had been staying.

On Dec. 30, police were called to a property located in the 8900 block of Town and Country Boulevard for a report of blood. Officers found a dead pit bull with its throat cut, tied to the tree. According to a police report, it appeared as if the dog had struggled to free itself before passing away.

Police searched for Jones and found him hiding behind a shower curtain in the bathtub. He was arrested and charged with one felony count of intentionally mutilating, torturing and cruelly killing an animal, and two misdemeanor counts of causing unnecessary suffering and pain.