A captain with the North Ridgeville Police department told WTAM he and his department are "not interested" in talking to the public about a police animal control officer who was fired for smashing the heads of baby rabbits into the back of his pick up truck, killing them. The captain said the chief of police, Michael Freeman, was also not interested.
A North Ridgeville couple tells our news partner WKYC they called North Ridgeville police after they found baby bunnies while mowing the lawn. The man, identified as Sheldon Jones, told Channel 3 that when the animal control officer arrived he took he bunnies one by one and killed them.
"When he got here... didn't exchange five words with me... took the rabbits to the tail gate of his truck and smashed their heads down one after the other," Jones said.
According to The Chronicle-Telegram, Officer Barry Accorti was fired by the city Wednesday.