MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Disturbing surveillance videos show a person beating and dragging a dog before throwing it off a pedestrian bridge, not once but twice, killing the dog.

The incident happened Friday off Crump Boulevard in South Memphis. As of Wednesday, the dog’s body had not been picked up.

A nearby business owner, who did not want to be identified or shown on camera, said he watched the security video after he saw the dead dog in the parking lot on Monday morning.

In the videos, a man was shown dragging and punching a dog. A few minutes later, the suspect dragged the animal up the stairs of a pedestrian bridge, before the unthinkable happened.

“At that point, he took the dog and threw it over the side of the bridge, into our parking lot, and it was obvious the dog was hurt badly, but was not killed,” the business owner said. “And then he grabbed the dog again, drug it up the pedestrian bridge staircase, threw it off a second time, killing the dog.”

The man says he reached out to the Memphis Police Department, and 311, which handles these situations, but he says the city told him they would not be able to pick up the animal for four or five days.

Memphis Police filed a report, but they told the man they were unable to assist with the removal.

He also inquired about a private animal removal service, but the company told him domesticated animals must be removed by the city.

In the meantime, the man is hoping the person who’s responsible for this crime comes forward.

“This young man needs to, he needs to turn himself in and you know, answer for what he did to this poor animal. The dog didn’t have a say in this. The dog clearly didn’t want this,” he said.

WREG reached out to Memphis Police for updates about this case, but we have not received a response yet.

A city of Memphis spokesperson said after we called them Wednesday that they planned on getting a crew out to remove the dog.