Escambia County authorities are trying to determine exactly who poured gasoline on a cat and then set it on fire, killing a beloved neighborhood pet.

Escambia County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Morgan Lewis confirmed Thursday the county’s Animal Control division was actively investigating the incident, which took place earlier this week in the Montclair subdivision in Pensacola.

WEAR reported the cat was something of a stray, but had been adopted by a neighborhood family who fed the cat every day. Don Hayden, one of those neighbors, told the TV station the cat was killed by a group of teenagers during the early morning hours Sunday.

“There were six or seven different kids who are circled around this cat, and they were just pouring gasoline on the cat and lit the cat on fire,” Hayden told WEAR.

Hayden’s wife and son both saw a video, captured on a neighbor’s doorbell camera, which captured the gruesome incident, according to Newsweek. WEAR said the station received a copy of the video, but it’s graphic nature rendered it unpublishable.

“What they did was absolutely cruel, and I want to people who did this to pay for what they did,” Hayden said. Hayden also wrote on Facebook the perpetrators left the lighter they used on the ground next to the dead cat.

Lewis said the sheriff’s office responded to the original call and collected evidence before turning the case over to Animal Control, which is standard procedure, she said. If and when the suspects are identified, a warrant will be sought charging them with animal cruelty.

Animal Control has a copy of the doorbell video, according to the Newsweek report.

Under Florida law, an intentional act of cruelty to an animal is consider aggravated animal cruelty, a 3rd-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.