Shelley Vaughn is a woman from Florida who in the middle of an argument would smile at her boyfriend and proceed to throw his dog off a seventh floor balcony. According to police reports Shelley Vaughn and her boyfriend were in an argument and he had asked her to leave. Shelley Vaughn responded by throwing his keys and cellphone off of the balcony. Shelley Vaughn would then grab the dog, smiled at her boyfriend and threw the dog off of the seventh floor balcony. Needless to say the dog did not survive. Shelley Vaughn was arrested and charged with felony animal cruelty, domestic disturbance and criminal mischief.
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A Pinellas County man says his girlfriend smiled before she threw his dog off the seventh floor balcony of his Clearwater Beach apartment.
Shelley Nicole Vaughn has been charged with felony animal cruelty for killing the 3-year-old pug. Eric Adeson is just numb.
“I never thought anybody could do that,” said Adeson. “I never thought anybody would have that in them.”
Adeson says he is traumatized after watching the woman he loves kill his pet, Bucky.
“She picked up Bucky over there, and she just smiled and just threw them off the balcony,” said Adeson.
The pup plunged seven stories onto the asphalt parking lot below. Bucky did not survive.
“I went downstairs and I hugged him, but I mean, it was seven floors, so. I kept thinking maybe he’d get up,” Adeson said.
He said Vaughn had been drinking and using drugs mid-morning Sunday before it happened.
They were fighting and the 46-year-old threw Adeson’s cellphone and keys over the railing before grabbing Bucky.
“There is no justice. I mean, nothing’s going to bring Bucky back,” he said.
Adeson says his 13-pound friend was playful and sweet, even if he sometimes got into the trash. He got Bucky as a puppy in 2019 to be a companion for his puggle Sandy who was going through cancer treatments.
“Never thinking in a million-years that Sandy would survive the cancer and still be alive at 13 and actually outlive Bucky. That’s the tragedy of it,” said Adeson.
Vaughn was arrested by Clearwater police Monday afternoon.
According to Adeson, this is not the first time Vaughn lashed out at him with violence. Hours earlier, Adeson got a restraining order against her since she lives two floors down in the same building. He has also filed a civil lawsuit.
“We felt it necessary to do something big and loud to scream to the community that these kind of acts are unacceptable. We are not going to allow that kind of behavior in our community,” said attorney Katherine Neal with Carey Leisure & Neal.
Vaughn is charged with aggravated animal cruelty, criminal mischief, and domestic battery.