SWOYERSVILLE — Humane officers with the SPCA of Luzerne County charged Eric Rollman, 38, with killing two cats with a pellet gun, according to court records.

Rollman, of Lackawanna Avenue, Swoyersville, discarded the cats – named Maddie and Rascal – in a field behind his residence where the felines corpses were recovered in March, court records say.

The two cats were being cared for by a woman residing on Lackawanna Avenue.

During necropsies of the two cats, similar to an autopsy, a total of 10 pellets were removed from Maddie and a single pellet was removed from the stomach of Rascal, court records say.

Court records say Rascal died a painful death as the pellet did not instantly cause death.

When Rollman was questioned, court records say, he claimed he euthanized one of the cats, Ma

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