Justice for Mimi the Pit Bull set on fire!

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Reported by Blair Simmons
Owner of dog set on fire wants justice

Updated: Jan 24, 2008 07:03 PM



When Antoine Draper sent his two year old pit bull, MiMi, to live with his brother for a while,

he said it was like parting with one of his kids.


"From a puppy I fed her with a bottle. From the time she was born," Draper said.


But just days before Christmas, he got a call that made him sick to his stomach.


"I was working, I got a phone call said somebody set my dog on fire.

When I came down here my dog was on fire," Draper said.


Mimi was set on fire while she was giving birth to puppies. The dog was still burning when Draper

got there and he said he knows who did it.


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Owner finds pit bull burned alive
Dog doused with gas, set afire in S. Memphis backyard
By Cindy Wolff (Contact)
Friday, February 1, 2008

Antoine Draper could see the smoke, smell the gasoline as he got closer to the house on Dempster in South Memphis. He still couldn't believe it. His dog was on fire, burned alive.

It was four days before Christmas, a couple of hours after sundown when the dog was set on fire behind a dilapidated 93-year-old house in a backyard piled with junk and surrounded by a rusty, bent chain-link fence.


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Memphis police detectives have a suspect, but they continue to investigate, gathering evidence for an aggravated animal cruelty charge.

Draper said the suspect poured gasoline on hay and his pregnant pit bull, Mimi, and set her on fire. She expelled her puppies as she died. They died too.

"People said she didn't bark or howl or anything," said 24-year-old Draper. "She just stood there and burned."

Draper said he's frustrated because he works odd hours as an auto mechanic and hasn't been able to drive witnesses down to 201 Poplar to give statements about what they saw.

He wants them to go on record so the person who did this will be charged for the crime. Draper said he loved Mimi and had left her with his brother because an apartment he moved into doesn't allow pit bulls.

Draper was working on his truck Dec. 21 at about 7 when his cousin, Danyell Gray, called to tell him a woman had set his dog on fire.

"She came down here and said she set that dog on fire," said Gray, who was playing cards with some friends that evening. "We thought she was joking, but she did it. She really did it."

Mimi was dead by the time Draper got there, but still on fire. He called the Memphis Fire Department and the Police Department.

Aggravated animal cruelty is a Class E felony under Tennessee law and punishable by 1-6 years in prison and a fine of up to $3,000.

Anyone with information can call Memphis Crime Stoppers at 528-CASH (2274).

-- Cindy Wolff: 529-2378