Michael David Parker, was arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after the pet dog Cow Cow was found lifeless in a back alley in Hawthorne.
His heartless act was caught by two surveillance cameras. Police released a disturbing surveillance video that they say shows Parker driving his sedan straight over the dog and then zooming away.
Video showing the back of the car shows 5-year-old Cow Cow writhing on the road until he turns motionless.
"It's shocking. You never expect to see a little animal like that run over and left there to die without the driver even looking back," Hawthorne Police Lt. Scott Swain told the New York Daily News. "It wasn't an accident. He purposefully did it."
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Swain said Parker admits he was in the alley that afternoon but claims he didn't mean to harm the defenseless dog.
The dog had been staying with a neutral third-party after Parker and his wife recently split up, he said.
"There's not indication it was tied to a domestic dispute," Swain said. "We spoke to the wife, and she didn't know it had happened. She didn't give any indication it might have been payback."