‘Started hitting it in a rage’: Man upset over being rejected by woman he met on dating app sneaks into her house to steal her pug — and then kills it, cops say

Left inset: Joseph Hillard (Butler City Police Department). Right inset: Chyanne Callender and her pug Lexi (WTAE/YouTube). Background: Surveillance video allegedly showing Joseph Hillard taking Chyanne Callender

Left inset: Joseph Hillard (Butler City Police Department). Right inset: Chyanne Callender and her pug Lexi (WTAE/YouTube). Background: Surveillance video allegedly showing Joseph Hillard taking Chyanne Callender’s pug, Lexi, from her home in Butler, Pennsylvania (WTAE/YouTube).

Chyanne Callender, a woman from Pennsylvania who did “absolutely everything” with her pug Lexi, is fighting to “get justice” for the 10-year-old pooch after a man she met on a dating app swiped the dog from Callender’s home and killed it “in a rage,” police say, after being allegedly rejected by her multiple times.

“He kept pushing it to where he wanted things to go further, to where he kept trying to force himself onto me and I didn’t want it,” Callender told local ABC affiliate WTAE this week after Hillard was arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and burglary by the Butler City Police Department. Lexi was snatched by him on Jan. 5, 2024, at Callender’s home in Butler County before being “battered” by Hillard and killed, according to cops.

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