Jan 12 2008
Justifiable Homicide?
A Russian man has been charged with killing two friends with an axe after he walked in on them cutting up his pet dog for food at his home in eastern Siberia, local prosecutors said today.
Alexander Yermilov, 40, “caught two friends with the body of his beloved dog, which they had cut up for meat” when he returned to his home one evening in December, the prosecutor’s office in the town of Chita said in a statement.
“Flying into a rage, the dog’s owner grabbed an axe from the floor and began to strike his uninvited guests on the head,” the statement said.
Yermilov then called the police to explain what had happened. He has been charged with two counts of murder and is in police custody, the statement said.
I believe he should be able to make a case for justifiable homicide. Even though my parents have dined in the Canine Cafe (tastes like chicken) themselves in years gone by I don’t think anyone has the right to touch another persons pet.
Was he pissed because he loved the dog, or because they didn’t wait for him?