After three months of investigating, police have arrested and charged the man responsible for tying Tommie the pitbull to a pole and setting him on fire in Richmond, Virginia.
The Richmond Police Department announced the arrest of 20-year-old Jyahshua A. Hill in a Facebook post.
“There are a lot of people to thank, but I’d like to single out all the citizens who contributed tips that pointed us in the right direction,” said Interim Police Chief William C. Smith. “That, plus the excellent job done by arson investigators who did the bulk of the work, major crimes detectives, forensics technicians and animal control officers who all built a strong case to present to the grand jury.”
Tommie’s case was nothing short of horrific, making headlines nationwide. He suffered burns on more than 40 percent of his body and died five days after the incident due to extensive injuries.
“It’s the most evil, I would say, there’s an element of evil and a sadness that have overtaken all of the other cases we’ve dealt with,” said Richmond Animal Care and Control Director Christie Peters. “They said that it’s an unbelievable case. That they’ve had more people from the community rally around this case than they have seen in a very long time.”
The brutality of the abuse inflicted on Tommie even helped raise awareness of Virginia bill 1604. Dubbed “Tommie’s Law” in his honor, the bill strengthened animal welfare laws in the state and passed through the Senate and House of Delegates unchallenged.
Hill was indicted by the Multi-jurisdictional Grand Jury on a count of felony animal cruelty. A judge denied him bond on June 6 and his trial is scheduled for September 8.
Thank you to everyone who signed the Lady Freethinker petition urging local police to track down this violent offender. Your voices, and all others who spoke out to support and remember Tommie, were heard. Now, we urge prosecutors to call for a fitting sentence, and work to bar this man from ever going near an innocent animal again.
COMMENT Ce tortionnaire criminel doit être condamné à de la prison ferme “à vie”, qu’il soit enfermé et privé de liberté sa vie durant ! Ce monstre ne doit plus être en contact avec d’autres vivants !
set them on fire!
Get Justice for poor Tommie how can anyone be so cruel please get this person before they hurt another animal.
Horrific cruelty.
Please get Justice for Tommie what he suffered is dreadful how can anyone be so cruel .
Justice for the victims!
Ok great he has been arrested and awaits trial. Now what? What will they do to him? He do ‘t even deserve a trial. People who are known to be guilty shouldn’t even get a trial. It should be automatic lock-up until they ship them over to one of the countries who hate america. Let them go over there with american tattooed on their forehead and have to take their chances in the streets. This moron is going to live comfortably in a cell (maybe) being fed, clothed, tv privileges, access to libraries, computer rooms, gyms, and whatever other comforts…… wow what punishment. Ship him to a foreign country that hate Americans and drop that imbacile in the desert.
Let’s hope he serves time in jail with many animal lovers!
JAIL TIME…
LOFE IS A GREAT TREASURE OF THE NATURE FOE EVERY BEING THAT EXIST! RESPECT YLIFE THAT YOUR LIFE CAN BE RESPECTED!
gewoon levenslang verbod op het houden van dieren en zwaardere straffen
Thank you to everyone who helped make Tommie’s last days filled with love before he died.
BUT ALSO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SIGNED THE PETITION AND WORKED SO HARD TO FIND THE MONSTER WHO DID THIS TO POOR BABY TOMMIE.
RIP POOR TOMMIE AND WE THE PUBLIC DEMAND JUSTICE FOR YOUR HORRIFIC MURDER BY A CRUEL,VILE EVIL MONSTER. WE ARE WATCHING TO MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS!
All criminals who hurt animals should be Isolated on a remote Island together and for ever
This EVIL SADISTIC PSYCHO 20 YEAR OLD JYAHSHUA HILL, can be this Vicious, Cruel & nasty at this age? wait & see when HE gets into his thirties & forties. You will find a long line of sadistic, Gruesome crimes happening as he is gradually upgrading himself to be a FUTURE SERIAL KILLER.
Statistically Proven 99.9% of the Serial Killers who are living behind Bars today, had done some sort of crimes against the vulnerable Animals at some point in their lives before. SO THIS IS IN THE MAKING OF A VERY CRUEL SERIAL KILLER. HE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR LIFE. PLEASE PROTECT THE OTHER PEOPLE & THE ANIMALS.
Life Jail for Animal cruelty.
Life Jail for Animal cruelty.
This motherf—er needs to be raped in jail every fucken day by every animal lover incarcerated with him. That should last about 6 or 7 months. Then cut off his tiny dick, shove it down his throat, set him on fire until he is burned raw. Then put out the fire and take him back to his cell to suffer for another 5 or 6 months, WITH NO MEDS, and perhaps pour a little vinegar over the burns to kill the germs. If he survives that, then fucken hang the son of a bitch.
OGM this act of cruelty goes beyond basically anything I have ever read. How on earth could someone do such a horrible act of cruelty to this poor dog. You need to fry big time you f*in bastard – no time on earth should be spared for you – you need to be dead and thrown out in the woods for the animals to devour. You deserve nothing better. You are demented beyond believe and Tommie nor any other animal should ever have deserved to be at your hands of torture. Thank you to all of the people involved who found this murderous bastard and turned him into the authorities – now the authorities need to get on board with this punishment and not just a god damn “slap on the wrist, or a life ban on not having animals n the future – fry the ignorant piece of shit…!!!
Good, they were found. How punish them like they did this beautiful little animal, Tommie.
Burn the son of a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Take Hill-bastard , the perverse, sadistic, degenerate brain and burn his claws without anesthesia up to the axilla with a highspeed-torch. Then put his legs, ass and genitals in boiling water. This piece of shit should never be able to replicate himself. There is enough scum crawling on our earth.
Rest in peace, Tommie. I was crying, when I have read, what the ass has done to you. I pray, there will be justice for you, sweetheart.
FRY THIS BASTARD AND FRY HIM GOOD. THIS IS HORRENDOUS!!!! AND OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS SUCH AN UTTER AND DIRE FAILURE,…IN EVERY WAY,….IN PROSECUTING THESE MONSTERS THAT LIVE AMONG HUMAN BEINGS. I COULD PERSONALLY RIP HIM APART LIMB BY LIMB,…..WITH NO MERCY. THESE THINGS NEED TO BE IRRADICATED FROM THIS EARTH,.. NOW LET’S SEE IF HE GETS A $25.00 FINE, THAT HIS MOMMY AND DADDY WILL PAY AFTER CAUSING TAXPAYERS HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. THIS FUCKER BETTER WATCH HIS BACK,…CAREFULLY,…FOR A VERY LONG TIME. WE ARE WATCHING HIM WITH UTTER HATE AND DISTAIN. FRY THIS FUCKER!!!!!!
Big Justice ! Love you Tommie, always in my heart.
This piece of garbage needs to spend the rest of his life in jail at very hard labour.
arrested hell, I want the bastard castrated, crippled and blinded…
Eye for an Eye is all I have to say.