MEMPHIS, Tenn.– A Memphis woman is heartbroken after her dog, along with thousands of dollars in electronics, were stolen from her east Memphis apartment.
All she cares about is getting her dog back.
“I’m single, I live alone and you know he was who I came home to. He was my dog but I love him very much like a family member,” said Davene King, as tears fell down her face Tuesday afternoon.
Between sobs King described her two-year-old Shih Tzu, named Stemi, who was stolen Monday night from her apartment in the Poplar Place complex off Poplar Avenue.
“I miss him very much,” she said.
Her apartment in east Memphis has been cleared out. Her TV stand empty and the majority of her possessions gone.
Davene doesn’t care about those things.
“Everything else can be replaced, my birth certificate, social security card, personal information, two televisions, flat screen televisions, all electronic tablets,” she said.
When King came home last night from her job at St. Jude she found her door kicked in.
“It’s muddy and I knew that my apartment had been burglarized,” she said.
Police told King she’s not the first person to be burglarized in the complex. She said officers told her there have been several recently.
“It’s extremely invasive,” she explained.
WREG checked and police confirmed there have been three additional burglaries at the complex in the last three months.
King thinks her place was cased. She said she usually walks Stemi around the same time every day so the burglars knew she was gone.
Now she’s hoping someone will know something to bring Stemi home.
“Memphis is a place where at times we do come together to support each other and sometimes it gets a bad reputation with crime but there’s a lot of love here,” she said.
“The hair on Stemi’s face has also been cut so it’s a little shorter than the pictures” King added.
She said she is also offering a reward.
If you know anything contact the Memphis Police Department.
