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An Emmet County man is facing nine assault charges after allegedly attacking a woman who tried to stop him from abusing a dog, according to the Emmet County Sheriff's Office.

"So, the suspect in this case was reported to be kicking a dog. We don't know if it was his own dog or a neighbor's dog, but the victim in this case tried to intervene and stop him from kicking the dog and he in turn turned his aggression towards her and savagely beat her," said Emmet County Sheriff Matt Leirstein.

The suspect is John Zarling, according to witnesses, this all started when the victim knocked on Zarling’s door to confront him about the alleged dog abuse.

Witnesses Cody and Charlie Parks described the harrowing scene. "Well, my brother and I, we were standing here in the yard having a campfire and we heard some unusual screams that stopped us in our tracks. We turned and listened closer. At that moment we saw someone run across the street screaming for help, screaming that 'he's killing her,'" said Cody Parks.

Charlie Parks added, "The scene that I walked into was the scariest things that I've seen in my life. The man was beating the woman, who was my neighbor, and her husband came in to intervene and he got attacked by the man and my brother came in and put the dude in a chokehold to try to get him off."

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