Chelsea Grimes only saw a cellphone photo of her new roommate’s first puppy.
Andrew David Thompson sent it to her the Friday before Labor Day in 2010, soon after he moved in.
When Grimes returned to their East Lansing, Michigan condominium on Labor Day, Thompson told her the Italian Greyhound he’d named Kensington had died.
“He said the dog had kind of strangled itself in its sleep,” Grimes testified during a preliminary hearing on Friday.
Thompson, she testified, said he’d wrapped the dog in a blanket.
Grimes, a veterinary medicine student at Michigan State University, said she found Thompson’s claim peculiar. Then two more Italian Greyhound puppies disappeared that September under unusual circumstances.
At the end of the month, Grimes asked him to move out.
Thompson, a student at MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, later told investigators he killed the puppy out of anger by slamming it against a wall.
The reason he was angry, Ingham County Animal Control Deputy Jodi LeBombard testified: “He had witnessed the dog urinating in his bedroom.”
The 24-year-old from Arizona was ordered Friday to stand trial on charges he killed or tortured three Italian Greyhound puppies.
He faces up to four years in prison.
Thompson, who has been suspended by the college and is being held at the Ingham County Jail on separate bonds totaling $600,000, also is being charged with an additional 10 counts of killing animals.
In these other charges, it is alleged that Thompson killed 10 Italian Greyhounds at his Okemos Michigan apartment between October 2010 and June of this year.
Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Jeff Cruz presented evidence Friday that Thompson purchased the dogs from online breeders.
The dogs were sent via airplane in pet carriers, according to testimony.
It was also revealed in court that Thompson suffers from bipolar disorder and that he was seeing a psychiatrist.
This is one dangerous person. Those poor pups suffered not only the misery of travel, probably from a puppy mill, but then ended up tortured. I’m fed up with the way we treat our animals. He should go away for a long, long time.
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Guy looks like your garden variety douchenozzle. No animal deserves the treatment he inflicted. Hopefully, he’ll be gang-raped in prison. Repeatedly.
Very dangerous indeed … I’d recommend treatment AFTER he serves the maximum sentence allowed by MI law (and hope his roommate is a dog lover).
Buttwipe. Someone needs to slam him against a wall until dead.
One sick young guy….He needs some physiological help….and he should also pick up dog doo-doo for the rest of his life at some animal shelter or dog park!!
A dangerous, devious POS who is only in jail because he was CAUGHT & God knows what else he’s done, how many other animals have suffered….I know there are no penalties strong enough to keep him locked up for the rest of his miserable life, but he should be, he should NEVER be allowed to roam the streets again, he is EXTREMELY dangerous, not only to our animals, but to our children, families & ourselves!
Such a dumb ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS GUY DESERVES TO DIE!! DEATH PENALTY.. TOO MANY IDIOTS GET AWAY WITH MURDER JUST CAUSE THEY PLEAD GUILTY OR LATEST OHH I HAVE BI-POLAR I DIDNT KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING AT THE TIME!!.. HOW MANY DID HE KILL… NOT 1, NOT2 BUT 10 GREYHOUNDS.. THIS GUY KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING!! BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY!!! THIS GUY DOESNT DESERVE TO LIVE AND BREATH AIR.. HE IS A WASTE OF SHIT!
This is how serial killers usually start off. This person needs intense therapy after his sentence is served. And he needs to be away from people and animals!
I am totally appalled by this creep.And chilled by the madness that shines in his eyes.He should never be allowed to have children or have any kind of pet as long as he lives.Hope Bubba takes him to task!!!!
i hope somebdy hurt him really bad in jail .remember jeffrey dahmer somebody beat him to death well thats what he deseves i dont wanne pay his therapy with my freaking taxdollars and feed him ect. hell i do it beat his head to a pulp bastart
For someone going into Medical School he should endure what he put those Poor animals through…. He should never be able to own an animal & she pay restitution
If this guy can torture animals this way he wouldn’t hesitate to harm a human. he needs to be in solitare with a black mamba.
Killing is killing- unless in self-defense. Whether it is a child, adult, kitten, dog or even rodents, cruel and intentional killing is a sign of serious mental health issues. Torture for torture. My God, I cannot imagine what is in his mind. I hate spiders, but feel like I have no right to kill them- they are here for a purpose and lead interesting and productive lives. Someone must have noticed this madness long before this guy went postal. The whole world is becoming more aware and sensitive to cruelty and injustice to the lesser creatures- lets keep it up and punish these offenders to the nth degree of the law.
At the very least, he should be thrown against a wall. Good luck in prison puppy killer, meet your new roommate BUBBA.
He seems very dangerous!!! Killing those pups for his own amusement!! How sickening it that???? Hope he stays in prison a long,long time!!
Many serial killers admit they started out torturing and killing animals. This guy is dangerous.
What a sick sucker he is, and he wants to be a doctor.
What goes around will come around; I hope he will suffer twenty times more than those poor puppies. What a freak!!
Why was he only suspended from school, but not kicked out? He should definitely be banned for life from all medical schools. And his “mental issues” are a lousy excuse.