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The owner of a pig in east Macon asked a man to kill the animal so it could be processed.
He obliged - or at least he tried to.
Deputies answered the call for animal cruelty at 3331 Kings Park Circle at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. It was reported that some construction workers heard gunshots.
Immediately after hearing the gunshots, they saw a pig running down the road with a pickax in its back and a man chasing after it, according to a Bibb sheriff's office news release states.
Turns out that man chasing the pig, Freddie Phelps Sr., 62, struck the pig with other objects and shot it, according to the news release.
The severely injured pig was found behind a home in the 3300 block of Kings Park Circle. A county animal control worker on the scene asked the deputy to put the pig down to end its suffering.
The deputy obliged and shot it, the news release states.
As for Phelps, he was taken to jail and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals.
As for the owner of pig, she still didn't get to have the animal processed.
The pig was taken to Macon-Bibb County Animal Welfare to have a necropsy performed, the news release states.