Police: Dog was dragged behind car for 4.2 miles

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – A dog was dragged for 4.2 miles to its death, a Lexington Police officer testified in a Fayette County District courtroom Tuesday.

According to police, Vincent O’Bryan and Jesse Durham were intoxicated when investigators say they attached a leashed dog, named Bella, to the passenger side of a car and dragged her to her death.

Police say they received multiple 911 calls from people along Winchester Road who spotted the dog being dragged.

Responding officers began interviewing O’Bryan and Durham after they found the car matching a description at a home on Charleston Court, but officers didn’t find the dog there. The officer testified that another responding officer found the dog along Wanda Way, severely disfigured.

"The collar was gone from the dog, somebody had actually taken the effort to take the collar off the dog,” the officer said in court. “We later found that collar along with the chain right next to the corner of the house on the passenger side of the vehicle. Where Mr. Durham was sitting as a passenger of that vehicle."

According to police, O’Bryan was driving the car and that he told investigators that he was "almost positive" that he wasn’t dragging a dog.

O’Bryan told ABC 36 News last week that it was an accident. He said forgot he had tied to the dog to the car to keep it away from another one of his dogs that had just had puppies.

The case will be passed onto a Grand Jury to decide if it was an accident or a crime.

Both O’Bryan and Durham face several initial charge, including animal torture.