The San Antonio couple whose two canine allegedly mauled an aged man to demise had “used meat to coach their canine to be aggressive,” paperwork present.
Christian Alexander Moreno and spouse Abilene Schnieder have been arrested after their American Staffordshire terriers killed Air Drive veteran Ramon Najera, 81, final week.
Najera died shielding his spouse from the charging animals. She and two different males have been injured within the assault, however have since been launched from the hospital.
The deadly ambush got here after weeks of more and more violent conduct by the animals that the couple allegedly educated them for, new data included in an arrest affidavit obtained by The Put up present.
Police obtained a number of suggestions that Moreno and Schnieder had “been breeding the canine and coaching the canine to be aggressive with meat,” the report states.
The canine — King and Snow — had a historical past of violence within the metropolis, which Schneider claimed solely elevated after they have been sterilized.
The town’s Animal Management Providers spayed the canines after they’d attacked two individuals in two separate cases, officers mentioned.
The transfer solely made the animals extra aggressive, and Schneider informed cops they started combating one another within the household’s yard.
She started recording “conversations together with her husband concerning how harmful the canine had develop into,” however allegedly continued to maintain the canines within the unsecured yard with out chains or different tethers.
The pets escaped from their yard Friday and gunned for Najera whereas he was strolling together with his 74-year-old spouse, Janie, and a buddy who they’d been visiting.
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They latched onto Najera, even dragging him alongside the road, earlier than they have been chased away by metropolis firefighters wielding choose axes. Janie was severely injured, their buddy was bitten on the hand and a responding hearth captain was bitten within the leg.
King and Snow — in addition to a 3rd canine belonging to the household — have been euthanized by ACS.
Moreno was arrested shortly after the assaults and faces felony fees of assault by a harmful canine inflicting demise and damage to an aged.
Schneider was arrested with the identical fees Wednesday after police established that she shares possession of the animals.
Earlier than her arrest, Schneider publicly apologized to Najera’s household, however claimed the homicide wasn’t her husband’s fault.
She mentioned they harnessed, tethered and locked the canine behind the gate earlier than they left the home, however the animals knocked down the fence whereas they have been out — claims the arrest report contradicts.
