Edgar Reyn, 26, then tried to laugh off what he’d done when his neighbors rushed outside to confront him, witnesses said.
“It's just horrible, to laugh, and now he’s crying about it now that he’s locked up,” said one of those neighbors, who declined to give her name.
“The birds was bad enough, but there’s kids everywhere. What makes you think you could walk to somebody’s property and think you could start shooting a BB in the tree?”
Cops busted Reyn on Tuesday, charging him with torturing and injuring animals.
The bird hunt took place at about 6 p.m. Sept. 28, on Moreland Street by Bedford Avenue in Midland Beach, just down the block from his house, cops said.
An ASPCA necropsy revealed that one of the birds still had a pellet in its chest after it died, sources said.
“I happened to pick the poor bird up. It had a bullet right through its chest here, a BB. But I mean a hole, right in heart,” the neighbor said. “The poor bird was in a state of panic, and I held it. I was hysterical. And I’m yelling at him, and he’s laughing about it.”
“I had heard a lot of popping noises,” said neighbor Keri Mullen. “It almost sounded like pebbles hitting the house or something. And then I ended up hearing yelling out here.”
Mullen ran to the door, and saw that another of her neighbors and her daughter had rushed outside as well.
Mullen said one of Reyn’s buddies tried to stop him from shooting, then apologized for his friend.
Police sources say Reyn has 14 other arrests on his record, including a 2014 driving while ability impaired conviction in Brooklyn.
Reyn, who was released without bail after his arraignment, declined comment outside his home.
His lawyer, Arkady Bukh, chalked the charges up to “fabricated allegations” by a group of neighbors who were angry that his dog barked too loudly.
“He denies that he killed the birds,” Bukh said. “He loves animals.”
(NY Daily News - Dec 12, 2015)
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