Oakland County Man Faces Charges After Horrifying Video of Mouse Killing with Stun Gun

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An Oakland County man could face animal cruelty charges after he recorded and shared a video of himself using a stun gun to torture and kill a mouse in a small box.

Oak Park Public Safety Director Steve Cooper told the Detroit Free Press his department received several emails from upset residents who had seen the YouTube video, which police have verified was shot at a plaza in Oak Park.

It has since been removed for violating YouTube’s terms of service, and Patch has elected not to share it because of its graphic nature. It has gone viral on LiveLeaks.com, where it’s been viewed more than 106,000 times.

Cooper said police tracked down and interviewed the suspect, who admitted he had purchased the white mouse at a local pet store and used a Taser weapon “to see what the effects would be.”

The video shows the man, who identified himself as David, opening the Petco box.

“So, we’ve got a fatty little mouse over here,” he said. “Wanna die?”

He joked about the importance of wearing safety goggles, then zapped the creature three times. At the end, he held the dead mouse by the tail and said, “Now the mouse is no more.”

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told WJBK-TV the video was “disgusting.”

The case has been forwarded to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, which could file charges for animal cruelty and possession of a stun gun-type device. The weapon was confiscated.

“The thing that was really disturbing was that it was 100 percent for pleasure,” Cooper told the Free Press. “Today it’s a mouse, tomorrow a squirrel ... Who knows what he could graduate to next. We definitely wanted to send a message that it won’t be tolerated and it’s not funny. We hope this young man learns his lesson.”

The man is also out of a job. After the video was circulated, he was fired from his job at the Glory Grocery Store, where he was a bagger. He was wearing a shirt with the store logo on it and shot the video in the store’s parking lot, when the video was shot.