Nikolay Lukyanchikov was sentenced to two to four years in prison.
After the fire was put out, police observed an unknown animal “badly burned and charred” on top of a small metal charcoal grill, the district attorney’s office“It scares me because you know you’re not supposed to have a gun, and yet you kept pursuing one,” Common Pleas Judge Raymond F. McHugh said during Lukyanchikov’s sentencing. “You should not have a gun, period.”
Bucks County deputy district attorney Robert D. James said Lukyanchikov claimed he killed Preacher to put the dog out of its misery, but also admitted he had been having a bad day,reported. The weapon used to kill the animal was stolen from a friend’s widow a week before the shooting incident, the newspaper reported.
“I think it’s fair to characterize him as a dangerous person who demonstrated his use of a gun on an animal,” James told the
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