Minneapolis ? A man charged Friday with killing a girl’s companion dog because the girl had spurned his attentions had a cell phone with video clips showing the dog being decapitated with a chain saw, according to a criminal complaint.

Anthony Albert Gomez, 24, at first denied any involvement in the death of “Chevy”, an Australian shepherd mix, but later told police that he instigated others to do it, telling them to “cut its head off” and to do it with a chain saw, the complaint states.

The dog was apparently dead at the time of the beheading, police said.

Gomez was an ex-boyfriend of Crystal Brown, 17, the dog’s owner, and told her he had seen the dog near his house after it went missing in February, the complaint states.

Gomez was arrested Thursday while police executed a search warrant in his home.

Gomez, 24, was charged in Ramsey County District Court with one count of killing a companion animal and one count of animal cruelty done to threaten or terrorize another person.