Dayton man accused of setting kitten on fire faces additional charges

Dayton police were called to a fight around 9 p.m. July 7 at the intersection of Richmond and Kenwood avenues in the city’s Five Oaks neighborhood.

Two men were arguing when officers arrived. When police separated them, one man said he was upset his neighbors set a kitten on fire and were making jokes about it, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.

An officer found a burned kitten in the 400 block of Kenwood Avenue near a front porch. An empty gas can with a lid also was in the yard.

A woman told police she was inside her home when she saw something on fire in the yard, according to court records. She said she dumped water on the cat to try to put the flames out.

The woman told police her boyfriend, identified as Williams, was outside near her home when she saw the fire.

Williams told officers that he had been on a porch in the 300 block of Kenwood Avenue when the kitten began following him, according to court documents. He then got his pit bull.

“The dog began licking and playing with the kitten, causing him to be frustrated,” an affidavit read.

Williams denied that he burned the kitten.

“He said that he did not light the kitten on fire. He said it was someone else and would not provide a name or description of the person,” the document stated.

Williams is held on $10,000 bail in the Montgomery County Jail.

The kitten is in the care of the Humane Society of Greater Dayton and is receiving treatment.