Veteran beaten up for trying to save turtle from men abusing it, police say
02/16/2017 10:18 am PST
By Emilee Speck, WKMG
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- (WKMG) -- Three young men were arrested Tuesday after police said they beat up a Navy veteran who asked them to stop torturing a turtle, according to Daytona Beach police.
A woman was walking her toddler around a pond at Wedgewood Apartments and told police she saw three men torturing a turtle. She went home and told her husband, Gary Blough, they were “smashing up a turtle.”
Blough went outside and said he saw a group of three men repeatedly abusing the animal, according to the police report.
"The one had it over his head and he was smashing it down on the sidewalk," Blough said. "I asked them to please leave it alone, just let it go to the lake."
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