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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged after he was accused of brutally killing his ex-girlfriend’s dog after he broke into her home on Friday. Allen Lyons, 34, was charged on Wednesday with second-degree burglary, second-degree animal abuse, first-degree harassment and armed criminal action. The Mexico Department of Public Safety wrote in a press release that Lyons was arrested on Tuesday and brought to the Audrain County Jail. A mugshot was not immediately available. He is being held without bond. A confined docket hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday at the Audrain County Courthouse. The probable cause statement says police were called around noon on Oct. 17 after the victim found her 5-year-old English bulldog dead in a bathtub filled with water with a 30-inch pipe. The woman told police Rousey, the dog, was health and behaving normally when she left for work. The woman came home from work for lunch, the statement indicates. The woman had been receiving harassing text messages from Lyons for days, the statement says. Police wrote that the crime scene indicated Rousey was “violently attacked in the bedroom” and blood was splattered on the walls, floor and furniture. Police wrote a “a large pool of blood, fecal matter, and urine was present in one corner of the room, with smears suggesting the dog had attempted to flee the attack.” An examination from the University of Missouri’s Vet hospital indicated Rousey “suffered severe head trauma with puncture wounds and internal bleeding,” as well as injuries to her throat, court documents say. Lyons allegedly first denied all of the allegations, but police were able to use GPS data that showed he went to the woman’s home after she left for work. “When confronted with the GPS and video evidence, he stated officers could not see his face. When told that his face was visible, he ended the interview,” the probable cause statement says.
