Accused in a purported incident of domestic violence, a Federal Way man has been charged with animal cruelty on allegations that he killed his wife's kitten.
At 8 p.m. April 4, police were flagged down outside a Federal Way apartment complex where a resident reported an ongoing fight in an apartment.
A woman there told officers her husband, 52-year-old Phillip Gregory Espinoza, had killed her kitten in a drunken rage, according to charging documents.
"When Phillip Espinoza noticed that their tiny baby kitten was peacefully resting on the Espinozas' bed … Phillip Espinoza grabbed the defenseless little black and white kitten and forcefully threw it at the bedroom closet door," a Federal Way detective told the court. "The force and impact was so severe that the kitten fell to the floor, it's little body twitching."
The woman told police Espinoza threw the slain cat at her when she tried to call an animal hospital. She left the apartment with the dead kitten wrapped in a towel.
Asking that Espinoza be held on $7,500 bail, King County prosecutors noted that he has previously been convicted of domestic violence-related charges.
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