Police: Northampton man fatally shot dog
A Northampton man killed his dog and burned it Friday morning, according to police.
Northampton police said Nikolay Lukyanchikov, 49, shot the dog and then burned its body outside on a grill.
Lukynachikov was arrested and arraigned on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals and discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, which are felonies, as well as misdemeanor offenses of possession of a weapon, cruelty to animals and recklessly endangering another person.
Northampton police said officers found Lukynachikov sitting on a bench near a fire in the front yard of a home in the 500 block of Holly Knoll Drive about 7:15 a.m.