Still Off The Hook! Jenelle’s Troubled Husband’s Dog Killing Case Won’t Be Reopened, Cops Say

Jenelle confirmed it herself on social media in July. When a fan asked on Instagram if it was a hard decision to stay with David after the dog incident, she responded, “Honestly yes, we were on bad terms for almost a week. Didn’t talk much. He knows how upset it made me… David has completed anger management.”

But in a media release obtained from the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office, they claimed how Jenelle denied the incident. “Evans advised that her husband, David Eason, threw the dog outside. She then advised that after David realized the dog scratched their child, he went outside and shot the dog,” the statement read of the May 1 conversation. “Jenelle stated that she did hear a gunshot but did not witness the incident.”

The Columbus County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant in May. A search of the residence and property was conducted. No weapons were located inside the property. There was “no blood evidence or any other physical evidence to validate that an animal had been fatally injured on the property,” the report read.

On May 14th, investigators met with Jenelle regarding the allegations she reported. They called her accounts “inconsistent” with her original story. “Jenelle advised that she was inside with her children at the time of the alleged event,” the report read. “She advised that she never heard or saw anything to indicate that David shot her dog.”

She allegedly told authorities that she did not want the investigation to continue, and said this was her decision “made on her own free will.” “I don’t know if she was shot or killed or not," she allegedly told cops. She claimed to have filed the animal cruelty report for publicity because she “did not know where her dog was.”

Then on September 9, David confirmed, yet again, that he killed the dog in an interview with People. “It was a situation where my daughter, her health, her safety was in danger,” he said. “This was something that nobody wants to ever have to do. The dog was aggressive. Yes, she might not be huge or whatever, but you know when a dog bites a child on the face more than one time, then it should never be around the child again. If you give the dog up for adoption, one day it’s going to be around children again.”

He continued, “If you call the authorities at that point, the law says the dog has to be euthanized. I’m not going to pay anyone to euthanize my dog when I could do it myself.” He then said that he “loved” the dog. “I still think about her every day,” he said. “It’s really hard for me. A lot of people put me down for it, they hate me for it, but like I said it was not something I wanted to do.”

Jenelle said she “didn’t want it getting out in the news at all.” “David has grown up in the country lifestyle — he hunts, he fishes,” she defended of her husband. “The way he was raised is really different than a lot of other places. We understand that people ares scared of the whole gun thing, but they just don’t understand it from David’s perspective. His father taught him, ‘Don’t let any animal hurt you’ … and he just thought what he was doing was best.”

David then said how he didn’t think it would have been better to place Nugget in a new home. “I don’t think the dog should have been re-homed, no,” he said. “Regardless of what I did, the dog would have been euthanized… The law says if you don’t euthanize a dog that bites somebody, within a reasonable amount of time, you are held liable for neglect.”

Jenelle continued that she has forgiven him, and that the two went to co-parenting counseling sessions. “Actually, my pitbull Jax, he actually killed one of our pigs recently,” she said. “So instead of David saying, ‘Well let me euthanize the dog, let’s just give the dog away.’ So we gave the dog away instead… So he’s even taken the initiative to correct his actions and not repeat the same mistakes he’s made before.”