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KEARNEY — A dog is dead after being stabbed, and two people were assaulted following an argument last week in southeast Kearney.

Kearney Police Department officers were called to a home in the 1000 block of Avenue E at about 7:50 p.m. Thursday because of an argument between two women and a man. When officers arrived, the man approached them and said, “She is killing my dog,” Buffalo County Court records say.

The officer said Desiree Deherrera, 24, was on the ground on top of a dog, and there was blood all over the floor and Deherrera. The other woman told officers she argued with Deherrera and Deherrera allegedly choked her. The man intervened in the alleged assault, and the woman and a 5-year-old boy fled to the bathroom and locked the door.

Records say Deherrera then started attacking the dog, “due to it being the devil.” The man tried to stop the attack, records say, and Deherrera allegedly attacked him, bit him on both arms which broke the skin and caused severe bleeding.

The dog, named Kong, a German Shepherd mix, fled the house into the street where he was hit by a passing vehicle. The dog was bleeding from the chest, mouth and nose, records say, and police humanely euthanized him at the scene.