A woman recovering from a dog bite called a Marion County sheriff’s deputy for help Sunday morning after receiving online threatening messages from a Summerfield man.
The 42-year-old woman met the deputy at the sheriff’s main operations building and told him that she was receiving the messages on Facebook Messenger from the owner of a dog that bit her. The woman said she had just been released from a local hospital Saturday night after being treated for the “serious” bite, a sheriff’ office report states.
The woman claimed that the dog’s owner said he wanted to kill her but didn’t state why. She added that she believes the man, who has a long criminal history, is dangerous and she is scared because she doesn’t know what he might try to do to her, the report says.
The deputy looked at the woman’s Facebook page and confirmed that the man “did state that he not only wanted her leg, but that he wanted her as well.” And later messages stated that “she did not matter to him and that he never wanted her around him again,” the report says, adding that the messages appeared to be in conversation form but those sent by the woman “seemed to be deleted.”
The woman was leaving the state and wanted the incident documented in case something happened to her. She said the man didn’t know where she was but she would “feel much safer when she is gone for good,” the report says.
The deputy documented the incident and encouraged the woman to call the sheriff’s office if anything else happened, the report says.
