VANCOUVER, Wash. – Washington state police say a woman tossed her boyfriend's dog into traffic on Interstate 205 during an argument. The dog was hit and killed by a car.
Shellie Lynn Hubbard, 45, appeared in court Friday morning to face charges of first-degree animal cruelty, second-degree assault and possession of methamphetamines.
Police said Hubbard and her boyfriend, Darwin Von Schirmer, were driving south on Interstate 205 around 7 p.m. Thursday when they began fighting in his car. She apparently cut his hands with a broken coffee mug handle.
The cut was deep enough that Schirmer pulled over on the shoulder of the freeway near Padden Parkway. That's when police say she picked up his dog and tossed it into traffic.
State troopers said it is the first time they've had to deal with this kind of crime.
"This is just a really, really bad situation," said Trooper Ryan Tanner with Washington State Patrol. "It shocked me just to hear about it. It was one of those things (where) you wonder what's going through somebody's mind there."
State police said the dog tried to make it back to the freeway shoulder before it was hit.
Shortly after that, Hubbard took off on foot. Clark County sheriff's deputies later arrested her two miles away near Fourth Plain Boulevard. Police said she had meth in her pocket and a glass smoking pipe.
Hubbard's bail is $20,000. She's in the Clark County Jail and will be arraigned on Jan. 4.
Schirmer said he rescued the catahoula leopard hound dog named Peanut Butter last year from the side of the freeway.
He said he was breaking up with Hubbard when she flipped out and threw Peanut Butter out into the path of an oncoming car.
He said he was surprised to hear that police said they found meth and a glass smoking pipe on her.
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