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Paso Robles man charged with murder, hate crime, animal cruelty

November 6, 2024

Tyler Grant Stevens

By KAREN VELIE

A 21-year-old Paso Robles man is facing charges of murder, animal cruelty and a hate crime in the stabbing death of 32-year-old Todd Pinion of Atascadero, a gay man.

Pinion had been missing for more than a week when his body was found near a creek in rural Santa Margarita on Nov. 2. The body of Pinion’s dog Spock was found on the Cuesta Grade.

Investigators suspect Tyler Stevens killed Pinion with a knife and then abused his dog.

Officers booked Stevens in the San Luis Obispo County Jail in the early morning hours of Nov. 3. He is being held without bail.

 


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Homophobic folks alive and well in SLO county. Todd gave two cents he was gay, and you’d only know if you were weird enough to ask someones sexual orientation; like this freakshow who stabbed a human to death and dumped his body in a creek by The Grade and then killed his dog and threw it off the side of the 101. Could be a child, a boy or girl, trans or straight, Muslim or Jew, anyone. Hate is alive and well in SLO county. In all forms.


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Do you have information about Stevens motive, if so I hope you report it. Oh, and you forgot to include a huge hated group, conservative Christens.


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Could just as easily have been a quarrel between two consenting gay men. No need to jump to conclusions.


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Hope he enjoys the rest of his life in prison. Dumb a$$


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Absolutely terrible. Scum of the earth.

RIP Brother Todd.


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