A suspected cat killer who allegedly beat the disabled animal to death refused to comment on the heinous allegations as he left court.

Adrian Cruz, 30, is accused of killing a nearly blind and deaf neighborhood cat in a brutal attack which has shocked the community in Sacramento, California.

He was tight-lipped as he exited the Sacramento Superior Court on July 2, issuing a terse 'no comment' when approached by reporters from  Fox 40. 

Prosecutors say Cruz is the man captured on a homeowner's security footage heading to an where stray cats gather to be fed.

The battered body of one of the animals was later discovered at the scene shortly after the video was recorded on April 21, according to police. 

Cruz was arrested after the homeowner called to report he had been caught on her home security camera again a week later.

'He walked up, tried to grab one of the cats,' Sacramento County Animal Care officer Zoe McCurnin said. 'Immediately, it ran away, and he went back to his car.'

McCurmin then staged a stakeout for weeks in the hopes of coming across the suspect again and was able to alert her fellow officers when he allegedly returned for a third time.

'It's a living thing that not only just lost its life, but it lost its life horrifically,' Officer Zoe McCurnin said.

The officer has worked her whole life to be able to help give animals a voice and described the footage as horrifying. 

'But it also gave me some hope because in my head I was like, we can actually find this guy,' she said. 

McCurnin was hiding in her personal car at around 3am, she saw the man return a  and quickly alerted the county sheriff's deputies, who had patrol cars nearby as they knew she was working on the case. 

Authorities went to the suspect's house with a search warrant, where they found the clothes seen in the surveillance footage.

'The gloves he had on had cat fur all over them, everything to indicate that this was the correct suspect,' McCurnin told the outlet. 

On June 2, Cruz was arrested for felony animal cruelty charges.

'It doesn't matter if this was just a stray cat and the lady didn't technically own the cat, it's still a life that he took away and it could result in even more horrific things that this person's possibly doing later on,' McCurnin said. 

A judge released him on his own recognizance on June 4 on condition of attending future hearings.

Cruz is expected to be back in court in early August.