A Chicagolawyer has been charged with a felony for allegedly throwing two small dogs off a second-floor balcony during a fight with his wife, killing one of the pets.
Chicago police say that the second dog ran away and has not been found, and that the incident took place on Monday evening.
Police arrived shortly after 9pm then to find the dead Chihuahua. A woman at the scene told investigators the she and her husband, 51-year-old Jerald Jeske, had gotten into a fight while in a vehicle. He had slapped her twice, she said, according to The Chicago Tribune.
“You love those dogs more than you love me. … I’m going to kill those dogs,” Mr Jeske said, according to police.
Mr Jeske then took the woman’s keys and entered the home. He then threw the dogs off of a second-floor balcony, according to police.
Mr Jeske has been held on a $10,000 bond for one felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals.
The lawyer is a 2000 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar one year later.
He is set to return to court next week.
The attorney lives in the suburb of Park Ridge, northwest of downtown Chicago and right near O’Hare International Airport.
