Yorkshire terrier victim in marital fight, dies after flung on to Cook Road

FORT WAYNE, Ind. ---Last Thursday (April 3), this 37-year-old man called his wife more nasty names than any man should utter, names we won’t publish in The Probable Cause. 

His wife of merely a year, according to the police report, there was with no apparent history of domestic violence.

Alexander Yoho

She told the cops her husband, Alexander Yoho, had been drinking, and it was so noted in the report.

After her husband accused her of cheating on him, she broke her phone, why the probable cause affidavit doesn’t say.

Then, reacting to his drinking, she started to clean the house.

That got Yoho more upset because he couldn’t stand the smell and started banging the cabinets and opening the windows. She went out the back door and Yoho followed, attempting to break the door off its hinges, court documents said.

She threatened to call the cops and he yelled she couldn’t - remember you broke your phone? The affidavit reads like scenes out of 19th century American writer, Stephen Crane’s, tales of the Bowery in New York City. 

Then close to 11 p.m., the evening turned even worse. Yoho, reacting to her call to police for help, grabbed his wife’s “heart,” 11-year-old Abby, a Yorkshire terrier, and left as his wife was waving off the police, court documents said.

She caught up with the police, this time for real. Yoho had come back with a warning - ‘you won’t like what I did.’

“He told her he took the dog out back and threw her in front of a car to kill her,” court documents said.

One officer searched a few lots down and found the little dog lying in the center of the eastbound lanes on Cook Road. Abby was surrounded by blood.

Yoho, who refused to talk without an attorney, was taken into custody and charged with three Level 6 felonies, court documents said. 

One was domestic violence - animal cruelty by knowingly killing a vertebrate animal. He was released Monday on a $2,500 bond, subject to pretrial services.

On the other two charges -  cruelty to an animal where defendant intends to terrorize and torturing or mutilating a vertebrate animal - he was released on his own recognizance, but subject to pretrial services.

Yoho has his next hearing on April 25 for a trial setting and another on June 4.