A man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed a woman and killed her cat in Killingly late last month.
State police said they responded to a home in the Danielson section of Killingly on March 29 for a reported stabbing.
Troopers said a man, 26-year-old Mackenzie Anderson, stabbed a woman and intentionally killed their cat.
The woman told authorities that she was stabbed multiple times before running off. The man then sped off in a black pickup truck, according to an arrest warrant.
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The woman said Anderson was threatening people who had wronged him a few days prior to the stabbing, including former friends and coworkers, saying, "I'm going to beat them up" or "hire someone to kill" a few people, the warrant reads.
She went on to say that the man started screaming in her face and threatened to kill her in a gruesome way, according to the warrant.
Authorities learned that Anderson also killed their cat after getting upset that the cat's hair got on a blanket. The woman told police that the man tried to strangle the cat a few nights before, but she was able to stop him, according to police.
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When asked why he killed the cat, Anderson said, "that's how I parent, and it's just an animal," the warrant reads.
The man was arrested on Thursday and he faces charges including malicious killing of an animal, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, assault with a weapon and unlawful restraint.
He appeared in court on Friday. The incident is under investigation.
