A St. Joseph County judge on Thursday allowed the pre-trial jail release of a man charged with killing four cats.
23-year-old Tyler Coday had been jailed since his March 31 arrest because he couldn’t post his $1,000 bond. Coday on Thursday had his initial appearance before Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Hurley, via video link from the jail.
Court records say Coday had greeted police at his Irish Hills apartment door and said he had been doing things and hearing things he “was not proud of,” and “some cats were hurt.” When officers asked him where the cats were, Coday said they were in the trash can, and they were dead…