A former leader of the South Carolina Republican Party faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly killed his mother's dog, claiming he is “the second coming of Christ” and God needed the “sacrifice.”

Police officers found Todd Kincannon in his underwear, bloodied and covered in dog hair on July 26 on the front steps of his parents' home in Simpsonville, S.C., according to multiple reports. The officers were responding to an early-morning 911 phone call placed by his father. Kincannon's father told police Kincannon's mother had locked herself in their bathroom fearing of her life.

“The reason I killed the dog is this, it’s real simple ... I’m sorry, I think ya'll [sic] are going to have to take me to the Psych Institution, I get that," Kincannon told officers, according to their police report, per the Washington Post. "But I’ll tell you from a legal standpoint you know, it’s in the State Constitution that God is sovereign and I honestly think he told me to do it."

They later found the dog “choked, stabbed, and mutilated” in the family's kitchen, NBC News reported. Kincannon, 37, had been living with his parents at the time of the incident.

Kincannon, who was taken to a nearby hospital for a mental health assessment before he is expected to be formally charged with ill treatment of an animal upon his release, also faces 2015 charges stemming from threats he made against the life of his wife and her family, according to local NBC affiliate WYFF-4. In addition, he was suspended by Twitter in 2013 after making controversial comments online about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and slain back teen Trayvon Martin, Fox News added.

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Kincannon, an attorney with a revoked law license, was promoted to executive director of the state GOP organization in 2009, per Fox News affiliate WACH-TV.