A Texas jury convicted a man of murdering his father by striking him three times with a 15-pound metal dumbbell just one day after being bonded out of jail for stabbing a police dog.
On Jan. 22, 2022, Ryan Mitchell Smith, then 26, allegedly tried to carjack a vehicle in the 800 block of Memorial Heights Drive in Houston . After the unsuccessful attempt, Smith ran away but was later chased down by police dog Nate. Smith allegedly stabbed the dog, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Houston police said at the time .
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