ST. PAUL, Minn., March 15 (UPI) -- Police in Minnesota were looking for the person who killed a teenager's therapy dog and sent her the head, boxed and gift-wrapped.
"This was so cruel," Crystal Brown told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "This is one sick, twisted person."
The Humane Society has offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to the person who killed the dog. The case is being handled by the police homicide squad because of the implied threat in the action.
Brown's 4-year-old shepherd mix dog, Chevy, vanished about a month ago. The head was left at her grandmother's house in St. Paul two weeks later.
Brown spent days looking for Chevy. She put up fliers around her neighborhood and went by bus to the animal shelter in St. Paul to see if the dog was there.
While Brown has a new dog, a puppy she has named Diesel, she said she still misses Chevy.
"Hopefully, he'll be my best friend," she said about Diesel. "Hopefully, he will be my guide through life."
