ALLEN PARK, Mich. (FOX 2) - A Metro Detroit man is facing charges after he went ballistic when he brutally killed a bird in an attack that was caught on camera.
Rick Simms is the owner of Critter Pet Shop, which has been in Allen Park for more than four decades. And it was the scene of a gruesome crime last week when a parakeet was smashed to death.Simms said a customer was trying to return the $30 bird because of an injury.
His brother, Michael, was running the counter and was offering him store credit until the condition of the poor parakeet."We saw the whole wing was bloody.