WHY???
It is sad, really. I started thinking about my old friends (thank you, Moo?) and realized how much I missed them. I started looking up old Lj's, and actually found the website of the high school hwere all my old friends should be, just to see how they were doing. A few were varsity cheerleaders this year, most are just in the honor's society and debate team like I used to be. I was happy to find most of them doing well. But when it came to my old friend's Lj.... Oh dear. It makes me sad to know they are still like that. They will grow up soon, hopefully.
I am so homesick, right now. I mean, no one knows. The kids around here may be from different parts of California, but none that I have met that are actually from the other side of the country, having to start brand new again. I have been here 15 months. Sometimes I feel like just running back to Virginia. I know I am going home for X-mas, and I would love to say to an old friend or 2, but I doubt they want to see me, after all. The last year I was living there I was stupid and made a fool of myself in my weaknesses. Timmy insists (and I actually know this) that this year I have changed so much that if I went back east I would be considered a babe. This saddens me. I will sleep now.
Dog's grisly death prompts plea for information
Police hope to catch whoever tied the animal to a train track in Martinsburg.
By Edward Marshall
Journal Staff Writer
MARTINSBURG - Authorities are requesting the public's help in an investigation into the brutal killing of a dog that was intentionally tied to railroad tracks Tuesday in Martinsburg.
Berkeley County Animal Control Officer Brad Sheppard said the animal was tied to the tracks off East John Street so it would be decapitated by a train. He also said those responsible may have waited around to watch the grisly aftermath.
"This was not a case of a dog simply being loose," Sheppard said.
The unknown suspect or suspects used "a very short nylon lead to tie the dog down to the rail," Sheppard said.
Investigators found that the lead was actually tied in a knot on the rail itself.
"My assumption is that it was probably some teenagers," Sheppard said.
He said that they likely climbed a nearby hill after restraining the dog so they could watch.
Sheppard said that the dog's body was found Friday with part of its lower jaw and tongue severed. The animal didn't die instantly but instead bled to death in what was likely an agonizing and slow ordeal, Sheppard said.
The dog was described as a cream-colored German shepherd-sized dog.
The dog was killed between about 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesday. Because of the darkness, the train's conductor was unable to see the dog and stop before the train hit the animal. After the dog was hit, the Martinsburg City Police Department was contacted. Officers then contacted animal control officers, but they were unable to find the animal's body.
On Friday, a citizen found the dog near the tracks off East John Street behind the Adam Stephen House in Martinsburg. The same set of tracks also are accessible from South High Street.
Sheppard said the dog didn't appear to be a stray. The dog was neutered, fairly clean and likely someone's pet.
If the perpetrators are caught, authorities will file animal cruelty charges.
"It's a horrible way for an animal, for someone's pet, to die," Sheppard said.
Anyone who may have seen someone leading a dog in the area Tuesday or who has any information about this case is urged to contact Berkeley County Animal Control at 263-4729 or local police agencies.
Information can also be phoned in to the Berkeley County Crime Solvers anonymous tip line at 267-4999.
I am so homesick, right now. I mean, no one knows. The kids around here may be from different parts of California, but none that I have met that are actually from the other side of the country, having to start brand new again. I have been here 15 months. Sometimes I feel like just running back to Virginia. I know I am going home for X-mas, and I would love to say to an old friend or 2, but I doubt they want to see me, after all. The last year I was living there I was stupid and made a fool of myself in my weaknesses. Timmy insists (and I actually know this) that this year I have changed so much that if I went back east I would be considered a babe. This saddens me. I will sleep now.
Dog's grisly death prompts plea for information
Police hope to catch whoever tied the animal to a train track in Martinsburg.
By Edward Marshall
Journal Staff Writer
MARTINSBURG - Authorities are requesting the public's help in an investigation into the brutal killing of a dog that was intentionally tied to railroad tracks Tuesday in Martinsburg.
Berkeley County Animal Control Officer Brad Sheppard said the animal was tied to the tracks off East John Street so it would be decapitated by a train. He also said those responsible may have waited around to watch the grisly aftermath.
"This was not a case of a dog simply being loose," Sheppard said.
The unknown suspect or suspects used "a very short nylon lead to tie the dog down to the rail," Sheppard said.
Investigators found that the lead was actually tied in a knot on the rail itself.
"My assumption is that it was probably some teenagers," Sheppard said.
He said that they likely climbed a nearby hill after restraining the dog so they could watch.
Sheppard said that the dog's body was found Friday with part of its lower jaw and tongue severed. The animal didn't die instantly but instead bled to death in what was likely an agonizing and slow ordeal, Sheppard said.
The dog was described as a cream-colored German shepherd-sized dog.
The dog was killed between about 9 and 10 p.m. Tuesday. Because of the darkness, the train's conductor was unable to see the dog and stop before the train hit the animal. After the dog was hit, the Martinsburg City Police Department was contacted. Officers then contacted animal control officers, but they were unable to find the animal's body.
On Friday, a citizen found the dog near the tracks off East John Street behind the Adam Stephen House in Martinsburg. The same set of tracks also are accessible from South High Street.
Sheppard said the dog didn't appear to be a stray. The dog was neutered, fairly clean and likely someone's pet.
If the perpetrators are caught, authorities will file animal cruelty charges.
"It's a horrible way for an animal, for someone's pet, to die," Sheppard said.
Anyone who may have seen someone leading a dog in the area Tuesday or who has any information about this case is urged to contact Berkeley County Animal Control at 263-4729 or local police agencies.
Information can also be phoned in to the Berkeley County Crime Solvers anonymous tip line at 267-4999.