WILKES-BARRE -- Police accuse a man of killing his girlfriend's cat by tossing it in the washing machine then putting it in a sheet and swinging it into walls.
Investigators said first Mackey stuffed the kitten into a washing machine and turned it on. Then he wrapped it into a bed sheet and beat the kitten against a wall until it died.
There are holes in the wall that show the amount of force allegedly used by Mackey.
Police say it all happened when Mackey went looking for his girlfriend in her apartment on North Main Street and couldn't find her.
"He just come, kick the door, and asked about her. And I told him, ‘She`s not here. She left,’" said a man who also lives in the home, but did not want to be identified. "He put it in the sheet of the bed, kept on slamming it like 6 or 7 times."
After the cat died, Mackey then allegedly threw its remains in a garbage bag and then tossed it in the home's backyard.
"That`s horrific, I can't believe that," said Robert Palchanis of Wilkes-Barre.
"The really sad part of it is it`s almost worse than a human being, because they can`t tell you what`s wrong," said Terry Palchinis of Wilkes-Barre.
Police arrested Mackey on a parole violation and charged him with animal cruelty and disorderly conduct.
"He`s in jail and that`s animal cruelty, so they`ll punish him for it and he deserves it," Palchinis said.
"He would do this to somebody else. Not only animals, he would do this to human, too," said the man who did not want to be identified.
Mackey is now in the Luzerne County jail. Along with animal cruelty he's also being held on an unrelated charge.
