Grand jury indicts sailor for animal torture after dog starves to death
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A grand jury has indicted a sailor for animal torture, one year after a dog starved to death in Virginia Beach.
When Enonge Stovall was getting deployed, she said the last thing on her mind coming back was that her dog would be dead.
Melo was a four-year-old English bulldog. Stovall, his owner, said she never got to say goodbye because she was in the middle of her deployment.
'It was horrible,' Stovall said. 'He was a family dog. He was my baby. He was like a baby.'
In late October 2023, Stovall had been gone for nine months. She said she trusted DeCarlos Gray from working with him at her last duty station in the military. He agreed to watch her dog.
'As military people, we take care of each other,' Stovall said. 'So I'm thinking it's like a safe person.'
According to documents, Melo stayed at Gray's home on Counselor Square for six months. With only three months left of Stovall's deployment, Gray took Melo back to his owner's house.
Why? Stovall said it's still unclear.
'He said something along the lines of he had to get his floors cleaned,' Stovall said. 'But at the time, I was on deployment, so I didn't pay any mind. But then when I got back, I was like, 'Well, he has a dog.' You know what I mean? So why would my dog be here with all his food? So it was just a weird situation.'
According to documents, it states Melo was in good physical condition when he went into Gray's care. In April 2024, video footage shown from inside the home showed Melo was alive in this crate, as stated in documents.
In Virginia Beach court documents, six days after Melo was dropped off at the empty home, he was found dead in his wire crate by the house sitter.
'I got a call saying there was a dog in my house, and I thought somebody broke in, and so I found out it was Melo,' Stovall said.
Court documents state when police got to Stovall's house, officers found the puppy pad inside the crate soaked with urine and fecal matter. The bulldog was emaciated and had several wounds on his body, each wound showing exposed bone, according to documents.
'I would never get another dog,' Stovall said. 'Yeah, that's over. It's just — I don't know. I don't even like to think about it. It's sick. Honestly. It's really sad.'
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