Joel R. Ruth, 50, of Railroad Street in LaGrange, was charged with animal cruelty and aggravated menacing after his wife told police he killed their pet before leaving to go find his brother.
Monica Ruth called 911 about 10 p.m. Thursday from a house on the 300 block of South Center Street and told the operator her husband was very upset.
“Just get down here … He has a shovel and a bat in the (expletive) car,” she told the 911 operator, adding that he had driven away from the house. “He’s going after my brother-in-law.”
LaGrange police went to the house on South Center Street while Lorain County sheriff’s deputies headed to the brother’s home on Foster Road.
Police met Monica Ruth at the home, and she told them her husband had been drinking that evening and came into the house covered in blood and holding a knife, according to a press release from the LaGrange police.
She told police Joel Ruth had told her that he was going to “do to (his brother) what he had just done to the family’s dog,” before making a throat cutting gesture and leaving the house, according to the release.
Police searched the property and found pools of blood and a shallow grave where the dead German shepherd-type dog was buried, according to police.
Meanwhile, sheriff’s deputies spoke to Joel Ruth’s brother at his home on Foster Road. He told them he’d been taking care of Joel Ruth’s dog that day, but the dog started chasing his chickens so he called for his brother to come pick it up. Joel Ruth picked the dog up earlier in the evening and hadn’t been back, he told officers.
Joel Ruth was found in Wellington and taken to University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center for evaluation before being shifted to the county jail. He is set to appear today in Elyria Municipal Court.
(Chronicle Telegram - Nov 21, 2014)
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