AR-News: (US LA) Dog death case closer to trial

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By STEVEN WARD
sward at theadvocate.com 
River parishes bureau 

GONZALES -- Twenty-third Judicial District Judge Ralph Tureau set a date 
Monday of March 8 to set a trial date for an Ascension Parish man accused of 
torturing and killing his girlfriend's dog in December 2002. 
Nicholas Matassa, 22, 224 W. Bordelon St., Gonzales, was booked Jan. 7, 2003, 
with one count of cruelty to an animal and one count of unauthorized entry of 
an inhabited dwelling. 
Twenty-third Judicial District Attorney Tony Falterman said Monday that the 
crime was one of the "most heinous" he had ever seen and the dog -- Shades, an 
8-year-old golden retriever -- was definitely tortured before being killed. 
Falterman said Matassa is accused of breaking into his girlfriend's Pelican 
Point home on La. 44 when no one was there on Dec. 23, 2002, and taping the 
dog's muzzle with duct tape. 
"He then beat the dog to death and dragged it all around. There was blood all 
over the place," Falterman said.



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http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/021004/new_dog001.shtml 


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