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Woman tossed boyfriend’s kitten from balcony after alleged assault, police say
July 09, 2018
By Kelsey Bradshaw, American-Statesman Staff
Austin police are looking for a woman who told them she threw her boyfriend’s kitten off a balcony because she was mad at him after an alleged assault, according to an arrest affidavit filed Friday.
Kyana Deshay Norwood, 22, faces a felony charge of cruelty to non-livestock animals, police said. She was not in custody Monday but upon arrest her bail has been set at $5,000, the affidavit said.
A witness told police on June 29 that Norwood threw Ginger, an 8-month-old kitten weighing 4 pounds, off the third-floor balcony of an apartment in the 7600 block of Cameron Road in Northeast Austin, the affidavit said.
The kitten — which the Austin Animal Center later determined had a collapsed lung, a fractured jaw and an injured leg after the fall — was “crying like a baby” on the ground, the witness told police in the affidavit.
Norwood apologized to the witness, saying “Oh, I’m sorry you saw that,” according to the affidavit.
Police had responded to the apartment complex six hours earlier when Norwood had accused her boyfriend of assaulting her, the affidavit said.
She later told police the kitten belonged to her boyfriend and his sister.
“Norwood stated that she never like the cat and was mad at the boyfriend for the assault and so she threw the cat off the balcony,” the affidavit said.