Warrant: Man beat dog to death with bat

An Oak Grove man accused of beating a dog to death with a bat has been arrested for felony torture.

The arrest warrant for torture of a cat or dog alleges that 26-year old Matthew Deshawn Dickerson of Oak Grove used a bat to beat an 11-month old Doberman Pinscher to death in November of 2016.

A necropsy was performed on the dog and it found acute traumatic injuries to the face, jaw, larynx and ribcage and chronic traumatic injuries to the left rib cage.

Dickerson was lodged in the Christian County Jail on a $5,000 bond.