HOMESTEAD, Fla. — A 66-year-old Homestead man was arrested Tuesday after police say he shot a neighbor’s cat in the eye with a BB gun last month.
Ramiro Perez was arrested by the Homestead Police Department and faces one count of animal cruelty with intent to injure or kill with a deadly weapon, jail records show.
According to police, the shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. on May 14 in an area that was redacted in Perez’s arrest report.
Officers said they responded to a report of an injured cat and met with the owner, who said Perez fired a BB gun at the animal while it was in Perez’s yard.
The owner told investigators he “heard the subject pump the BB gun three times” and then saw him fire toward the cat two to three times, striking it once in the eye, according to the report.
The report states that the cat was taken to a veterinary clinic, where its eye had to be surgically removed. Veterinary costs totaled $848.50.
Police said officers later went to Perez’s home and also visited his residence again on Tuesday before he later came to the HPD station, where he was read his Miranda rights in the presence of investigators.
As of Wednesday, he was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where his bond was listed as “to be set.”
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