Police officer shoots two dogs in Galloway Township; owner says they weren't a threat

galloway township, new jersey

Two dogs were shot by a Galloway Township police officer Wednesday evening, and police and the owner provided different accounts of the incident.

Police said a pizza delivery driver called them at 4:56 p.m. to say he made a delivery to the 500 block of South Fir Avenue. When the resident let several dogs out of the house, the driver said, one of them bit him.

Officer Ray Glick responded to talk to the dogs’ owner, standing halfway across the yard for his own safety, Chief Patrick Moran said Wednesday night. The owner opened the door and allowed the dogs to charge Glick, Moran said.

Glick shot one of the dogs as it lunged toward him and a second dog as it circled him and tried to bite him, Moran said. One injured dog ran back into the home and the other went to the yard. A third dog was not aggressive and ran away.

Animal control officers arrived and took the injured dogs, believed to be pit bull mixes, to a local veterinarian, Moran said.

But owner Jim Hicks said things didn’t happen that way.

Hicks said he was napping on his sofa Wednesday evening, when he went to answer a knock on the door. His three mixed-breed dogs started barking.

Hicks said he opened the door, saw a Galloway Township police officer, and reached down to restrain the dogs.

“I took a step to the side, and he just shot my little white dog in the hallway,” Hicks said.

A second dog ran out into the yard after the officer, and the officer shot it, too, Hicks said. The third dog got scared and ran off.

“Then he pointed the gun at me and he (looked like he) was ready to shoot me,” Hicks said. what a shame he wasn't shot too! “They handcuffed me and threw me in the car.”

The officers called animal control to pick up the dogs and take them to the emergency veterinary service in Linwood, Hicks said. They wouldn’t let him help capture them, and the procedure took 45 minutes.

The police eventually let him go without charging him, Hicks said. Moran agreed that Hicks had not been charged with a crime, but said he did not cooperate with the investigating officers.

Both dogs were undergoing surgery Wednesday night, and he was not sure whether they would survive, Hicks said. The veterinary bill was already up to $3,000.

Hicks said he has an “invisible fence” in his yard, with signs to notify passers-by that there are dogs on the property restrained by the device. If the officer was afraid of the dogs, he could have called and asked Hicks to step outside to talk.

“I’m sitting here in disbelief that somebody came into my house, pulled a weapon and used it, right here in my house,” Hicks said.

The delivery driver was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Mainland Campus, where he was treated and released, Moran said. Glick was not injured.

Detectives Ro Latorocca and Eric Hendrickson are investigating the incident, Moran said.

prediction: the investigation will reveal another lying pit nutter.

Tulsa Police Officer Attacked By Pit Bull Trying To Save Girl

tulsa, oklahoma

A Tulsa Police officer is back to work, on light duty, more than a week after being attacked by a pit bull while trying to save a little girl.

Officer Thomas Bell works at a computer as crime analyst, but, the department is so short-staffed in the field, he volunteered to do a shift on patrol, answering calls.

When he got a call of a dog being a nuisance, he had no idea he'd end up in the hospital.

Arnetta Atkins and her little buttercup had gone to Lacy Park, while waiting on her son to get out of boxing. A female pit bull showed up and cornered them up on the playground equipment, so Arnetta called 911.

Officer Tom Bell got the call. The dog was calm, wagging her tail and stood right next to him.

"She was a very large, muscular pit bull, full grown, so I reach down and get her by the collar and instruct the family to hop on down and go on to your car," Officer Bell said.

That's when everything changed in an instant.

"As we was getting down, walking to the car, the dog just got vicious and ferocious and out of control," said Arnetta Atkins.

"Fighting me so hard, she was coming off the ground," Officer Bell said.

He and his back-up officer tried to wrestle it to the ground. They even pepper sprayed it but nothing worked. They couldn't shoot, because the family was in the line of fire. Then the dog attacked, biting Officer Bell's arm, through muscle, down to the bone.

"It was incredibly painful," he said. "But, in spite of how bad it hurt, I absolutely knew I could not let go of her."

The family made it to the car and Officer Todd Snedagan pulled out his gun.

"I was able to push her down and back off and he had a clear shot," Officer Bell said. "He fired three shots and I'm very thankful for this, she died instantly."

Officer Bell shouldn't need surgery or physical therapy, just lots of time to heal.

"I just thank God they were there because I know I wouldn't have made it with my daughter," Arnetta said.

"Nobody wants to be attacked by a pit bull, it's a scary thing and potentially deadly but if I have a choice between me getting attacked and that family getting attacked, it's a very easy choice for me," Officer Bell said. "That's what we do."

Officer Bell says this is why it's so important to make sure your dogs are secure, because they act one way with their own family, but, can change when around other people.

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5-year-old girl recovering after being attacked by a dog

marshfield, wisconsin

A 5-year-old girl is recovering after a Rottweiler/Pit Bull mix dog repeatedly attacked her.

The Marshfield Police Department says it happened around 10 on Tuesday night. Officers responded to the 500 block of W 5th Street in Marshfield. When they got there, they say a 5-year-old girl was near the side of the road with numerous wounds to her arms and legs. Officers say the dog was clearly agitated, and it began attacking the girl again. The department says one of the officers jumped on top of the dog in attempt to get the girl free. A second officer arrived on scene moments later and was trying to stop the dog by use of his sidearm, but couldn’t do so because of how close the girl and other officer were. Officers say moments later, the dog was pulled free from the girl, but it broke free from the grip of the officer and attacked her once again in the yard.

Officers then used a taser on the dog, which caused it to pause but not let go. A third officer then arrived on scene and was able to shoot the dog with one .40 caliber round while in the front yard area of the home. Officers say the dog briefly let go of the girl, but then continued to attack her. A second shot was then fired by the same officer, killing the dog.

The department says the girl had numerous injuries. She was taken by ambulance to St. Joseph’s Hospital Emergency. She was stabilized and admitted. Two others were injured due to dog bites. The 33-year-old father of the girl and the 21-year-old female caretaker of the dog were also hurt. Both parties were treated and released.

tasers should only be used as a temporary solution so the cop can better position themselves to shoot that fucker.

UPDATE New information is released after a 5 year old Marshfield girl is bitten by a large dog numerous times.

According to the Marshfield Police chief, officers were called to the 500 block of West Fifth Street just before 10:00 PM, Tuesday for reports of a dog attacking a child.

When the first officer got there, the dog, described as a 100 pound Rottweiler/ Pit Bull mix, was not attacking the girl and she say was laying on the side of the road with numerous wounds on her arms and legs. Not long after though, he attacked again. That's when the officer jumped on the dog and tried to pull the girl free with no luck.

A second officer arrived and attempted to shoot the dog, but chose not to because the girl and officer were in close range. The first officer managed to get the dog off the girl, but it broke free and started mauling her again.

Officers tased the dog, hoping it would let go of the child but it did not.

A third officer had to shoot the dog twice before it finally let go of the girl. The first shot caused the dog to let go of the girl, but it only paused and attacked her again. The second shot was fatal.

The girls father, 33, was treated and released for dog bites as well as the 21 year old woman who was caring for the dog. Police say she is not the owner.

Man Raising White Tail Deer In Indiana County Shoots Neighbor's Dogs

indiana county, pennsylvania

On his expansive, rural property in Rossiter, Glenn Mumau raises white tail deer and says his neighbor's dogs are scaring his family and ruining his business.

Mumau said this has been an ongoing problem in his neighborhood, and after another pit bull attack Tuesday morning, he took matters into his own hands.

"His dogs get loose, and he doesn't bother to try and catch them," said Mumau.

He said the pit bulls got loose twice Monday and ran onto his Indiana County property.

Mumau said he returned the dogs to his neighbor both times. But when the dogs got out again and severely mauled and killed one of his deer and wounded a few of his fawns, he shot at them.

"I couldn't catch them, so I came back over here, and when I came back over here they were trying to get in the fence, and so I had to shoot them," he said.

Mumau said he had to shoot both pit bulls because the deer are defenseless and they're kept in a large pen that they can't jump over. Mumau said the pit bulls have been terrorizing his neighborhood for years and the police and Humane Society have not been helpful.

"Unfortunately the dogs didn't do anything wrong because they were just being animals and this man doesn't do anything with them. I mean, they're left to run and he doesn't even take care of these animals,” said Mumau.

Mumau said he also had to shoot two of the pit bulls last summer because they went after his daughter.

Channel 11 News tried to contact the owner, but did not get in touch with him.

Deputies: Pitbull attacks child

orange county, florida

Authorities say an Orange County boy is recovering after a dangerous encounter with a pitbull Sunday night.

Orange County deputies say they responded to the scene at 3525 Stonefield Drive, in East Orange County.

One deputy says the pitbull was unsecured and aggressive. He says the dog charged him, forcing him to shoot it twice. The deputy's shots killed the dog, according to OCSO.

Orange County Fire Rescue treated the boy for injuries on the scene, and his father said he planned to take his son to the hospital.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office and Animal Control officers are investigating the attack.

Officer Shoots Dog During Disturbance Call

pit nutter DEBBIE LATIMER
columbus, ohio

A dog was recovering from a gunshot wound Monday after police said an officer was forced to open fire while responding to a disturbance call in the area.

It happened Sunday night near an apartment complex along South High Street.

Police said the officer was responding to a disturbance call and walked through a gate when Chopper, a 92-pound pit bull-boxer mix, ran at him, 10TV's Patrick Bell reported.

The officer then shot the dog, police said.

"And that's when the policeman drew his gun. I'm yelling not to shoot my dog," said Chopper's owner, Debbie Latimer. "Then he shot once, he shot twice, and then my dog hit the ground."

Latimer said the bullet went through Chopper's left shoulder and lodged itself in his right side. The dog has no feeling in his hind legs and had been under heavy sedation since being shot, Bell reported.

The officer who shot the dog was not identified, but police said he would face a firearms review board, which is standard anytime a weapon is used.

Animal Control officers cited Latimer on four charges after the incident, including failure to contain, failure to license, no rabies vaccination and no insurance, Bell reported.

Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for additional information.

let's see, DEBBIE LATIMER'S unconfined, unlicensed, unvaccinated, uninsured frankenmauler charged an officer. LATIMER yelled for it to stop. it didn't. cop shot it. LATIMER cries that lethal force was not justified. WHY DO SO MANY MENTALLY DEFECTIVE PEOPLE OWN PIT BULLS?

Pit bull found savagely killed in Frankford

frankford, pennsylvania

The popping sound of firecrackers is common around Ditman and Levick streets in East Frankford, neighbors say.

But last night that sound came from a gun used to shoot a pit bull in the head.

It was the second pit bull that was found killed in a public area in two weeks.

About 10 p.m. last night, residents on Ditman heard a "pop, pop" but thought nothing of it until cops arrived in the back alley way about an hour later.

Police found a brown pit-bull mix laying in a puddle of its own blood, tied to a fence post with a gunshot wound on the side of its head.

One neighbor, who was watching TV, peered out the window into his back yard and saw the gruesome scene lit up by the flashing blue and red lights of a nearby police car.

"I couldn't see anything" at first, Carlos Rodriguez, 35, said. "It was so dark. But when police came, I saw the dog tied to my fence post."

Carlos and wife Ana were confused as to why the dog was tied to their fence in the first place, Ana said.

"There are plenty of other fences," Ana said. "They see we have a pool here, and they know our kids play in it every day, so why would they do it here?"

Police were still looking yesterday afternoon for the owner of the dog and who might have shot it, a police spokeswoman said.

"It's just weird," said David Cheatley, 30, who lives four houses down from Rodriguez's rowhouse. "We all have dogs here. Why did they have to do that right there where our kids could see?"

Dave Browning, 59, who lives between Rodriguez and Cheatley, said that in the last year his 9-year-old granddaughter has witnessed four deaths - three people hit by cars and now the dog.

"She and my wife were coming home from her dance-recital rehearsal," Browning said. "And when they pulled up, my granddaughter saw the dog laying in the street."

Browning's wife, Donna, then called police at 10:45 p.m., saying she saw a gunshot wound in the dog's head, police said.

"It's such a shame," Browning said. "When my granddaughter came in, she bent down and hugged our dog and said, 'Don't worry, I'll protect you.' "

The dog's body was picked up by the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

On June 15, a pit bull was found dead hanging from playground equipment at an Olney rec center. The dog had been hanged by its leash at Barrett Recreation Center, at 8th Street and Duncannon Avenue.

SAVAGELY KILLED? i don't think so. less humane than the needle but that is a quick end unlike being beaten to death or being eviscerated by a pit dog.

wanna bet that pit dog bit somebody's kid?

Cheyenne Police Shoot Dog

cheyenne, wyoming

Cheyenne police shot and killed a vicious dog after a report that it was chasing a pedestrian.

Cheyenne police and animal control officers responded to a complaint about the dog on Friday morning.

The dog aggressively charged officers and it was shot to death within feet of them. Cheyenne Police and animal control continue to investigate the matter.

Cops Shoot, Kill Dog in Port Richmond

Christopher Padgeon
philadelphia, pennsylvania

Philadelphia police shot and killed a dog while serving a warrant on a Port Richmond residence.

The incident happened on the 4500-block of Hale Street a little after 2 p.m. Friday, authorities told NBC Philadelphia.

The officers were serving Christopher Padgeon, 26, with a warrant for contempt of court, reports the Inquirer.

Padgeon put the pit bull in his kitchen and blocked the door with a board to block the dog from exiting when the officers entered Padgeon’s house, according to the Inquirer.

But when the police handcuffed the man, his pit bull jumped over the board to attack. One of the officers shot at the dog and when the dog continued to charge, a second shot killed it.

Padgeon is now in police custody.

Dogcatcher attacked by pit bull

bainbridge, georgia

On Friday morning, the City of Bainbridge’s Animal Control Officer was attacked by a pit bull, which in turn was shot and killed after it charged a police officer.

Bainbridge Public Safety officers cited a woman who claimed the dogs were violating city animal ordinances, and took three other pit bulls into custody.

The attack happened at about 10 a.m., next door to 706 School Court, within sight of Potter Street Elementary School.

Animal Control Officer Debra Chambliss had responded to School Court after neighbors called 911, stating the dogs were being aggressive and not allowing them to walk outside their home.

When BPS Officer Terry Pait arrived, he saw Chambliss lying in the driveway of the neighbors’ home, with a pit bull biting her leg.

Neighbors shooed the attacking dog and other pit bulls who had come over from 706 School Court away from Chambliss with a rake and broom. Officer Pait said he went looking for the attacking dog when the dog came out from behind a tree and charged him, leading him to shoot it.

While the Emergency Medical Service tended to Chambliss’ injuries, two Public Works employees rounded up three other pit bulls, which were running loose, as well as another dog that was chained on the front porch of 706 School Court.

Vincent Inlow of Public Works described how, with one of the dogs’ caretakers holding the dogs at bay, he was able to restrain the dogs using a dogcatcher’s tool and put them in the truck Chambliss uses for her work.

Chambliss was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital.

According to BPS officers, Shanna Senior, the daughter-in-law of the resident of 706 School Court, was cited for violation of the city’s leash law, failing to vaccinate a dog for rabies and for possession of a vicious animal.

Capt. Fred Black said the Decatur County Environmental Health Department was going to test the deceased pit bull for rabies.

According to BPS Chief Investigator Frank Green, officers were looking into whether another person—who was not a resident of 706 School Court—was responsible for caring for the dogs and if so, he could also be cited.

Animal control is concern for candidates

Local businessman David Cottles said he was bitten multiple times by a Labrador retriever while he was campaigning door-to-door on Pineland Drive in Bainbridge about two weeks ago.

Cottles said he had barely exited the cab of his pickup truck when the dog bit him on the arm, leaving behind a bite print that was still visible this week. Cottles said the dog then bit him again on the leg. Cottles called 911 and went to the emergency room of Memorial Hospital, where he was treated for his bites, given a Tetanus shot and prescribed some antibiotics.

“I am definitely for animal control,” Cottles said after learning of Friday’s attack. “What if, instead of me, it had been a child or older person walking past that dog’s house?”

Retiree Ted Snell, who is opposing Cottles in the July Democratic primary for County Commission District 4—which represents southeastern Bainbridge—said animal control is a major problem.

Snell, who is also campaigning door-to-door, said he would like to see the Bainbridge City Council make it illegal to tether a dog to a rope or chain within city limits, a practice that is already illegal outside them. He said he also supported county commissioners’ budgeting of an additional $40,000 for animal control in their proposed 2010-2011 budget.

What triggered bulldog attack still unknown; no charges for owner

lakeville, massachusetts

The woman who pulled her dog away from the 5-year-old boy it was mauling is being hailed as a hero by the town's animal control officer.

David Frates, Lakeville's head animal control officer, praised Karen Bruno O'Leary, 38, for preventing the year-old American bulldog from harming the boy further.

"Once he flipped out, she held onto the collar and would not let go," said Frates on Thursday, adding Bruno O'Leary was badly bitten herself.

The child, identified by the Boston Herald as Lex Lizotte, ran at least 50 yards away and got around a 4-foot-high fence to escape the dog, named Harpo, who bit him. The late-afternoon attack occurred Wednesday inside Bruno O'Leary's 4 Helen St. home.

"He's a tough kid," Assistant Animal Control Officer Hal Marshall told the Herald. He was among a group of neighbors who found the boy, whose right cheek was severely bitten. The youngster was located on Wisteria Street, one street over from Helen Street in the Clark Shores neighborhood near Long Pond.

"He was crying but not like you would think. He was more like just whining," Marshall said. "We asked his name, how old he is. He kept saying his hand hurt."

The boy was listed in fair condition at Children's Hospital in Boston Thursday night.

While the matter is still under investigation, police say there will be no charges pressed against Bruno O'Leary.

They also said the dog was not rabid.

Police killed the dog by shooting it nine times inside Bruno O'Leary's home.

She was airlifted to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with wounds on her arm and face. Information about her condition was unavailable Thursday night at the family's request.

Frates said his office had received no prior complaints about the dog, but also mentioned that Bruno O'Leary had lived at 4 Helen St. for only "three or four months."

A neighbor identified the dog as a mixed breed, but police said Wednesday and reiterated Thursday that it was a 110-pound American bulldog.

The central question about the attack — what caused the dog to snap — still looms unanswered.

Dr. Nicholas Dodman, who is the director of the animal behavior clinic at Tufts University Cummings School of Animal Medicine, said any number of behavioral triggers could explain the dog's attack.

The dog could have been exerting dominance, responding to fear, acting predatory or responding to physical pain, Dodman said.

"The bottom line is you need to know more about why it happened," he said.

Police said food might have been somehow involved in the immediate lead-up to the attack, and Dodman said a 5-year-old wandering around with food at the dog's level sounds like "a recipe for disaster."

Dodman said the American bulldog is "not a dog for the novice" owner or trainer.

He said bulldogs, like other bull breeds, can be tenacious and are "not usually super fearful" and can be aggressive if not trained correctly.

"This is a tough dog that's good in the right hands. In the wrong hands, well, that's a whole lot of dog," he said. "It's like giving a 17-year-old a Ferrari. There's nothing wrong with 17-year-olds. There's nothing wrong with Ferraris. But together it can be a very bad combination."

Asked whether it is unusual for the dog to attack a child and then its owner, Dodman said he could see a situation in which the dog whirls around in an "aroused state" and, while the owner is trying to physically restrain or reprimand the dog, "that's when you could see a double bite."

Others, such as Frates, suggest that no explanation will be established.

"Nobody will ever know what happened to him," Frates said. "It's like that rainstorm we had" that caused the recent floods. "I don't think we'll ever see anything like this again — at least I hope we don't. I have never seen a dog bite that bad. It was horrendous."

Frates did not read too much into supposed breed-specific traits.

"You see good pits; you see bad pits. You see good German shepherds; you see bad German shepherds. You see good poodles and bad poodles," he said. "This is just a freaky thing."

Elaine Beausoleil, who works at Acushnet Animal Hospital, said the American bulldogs she deals with there "are usually very laid back" and "we don't even have to think about muzzling them."

"I don't think you can really draw anything from this," she said.

Pitbulls Attack Animal Control Officer in Greenwood

greenwood, arkansas

Police are searching for two pitbulls in Greenwood after they cornered a woman in her house and attacked an animal control officer. Police shot both dogs before they ran into the woods.

Early this morning Greenwood resident Lauri Myers heard barking in the neighborhood as she got ready to take her Chihuahua mix out for a walk. She looked out the window and saw two pitbulls at her front door, trapping her in her house.

"These two were very aggressive and very ferocious. All the stories that I've heard, these two were very about it," said Myers.

Myers called the police department, who sent animal control. But the two dogs were too much even for him.

"When he got out of this truck the dogs circled behind his truck and pinned him against my vehicle. The little brown one, I shouldn't say little because it was big, charged him and to defend himself he hit that dog with his baton stick and bent it," said Myers.

Back up was called and as the officer approached, one of the pitbulls lunged at him, so he fired his gun, hitting him in a leg. Then the other pitbull charged the officer, and he fired at that one. Both animals ran into a wooded area.

Police had several reported sightings of the dogs in neighborhoods and fields so they created a perimeter around the area and waited to catch them.

By the end of the day, police still had not captured the animals. Myers had no prior experience with pitbulls, and she says she won't rest easy until they are caught.

"This was my first close up and I don't want to repeat it again. No way," she said.

Police say shooting the dogs was the right decision.

"Part of the job is safety of each individual officer. We have to protect the officer. When the first responding officer got there and deemed the animal control officer was in a very dangerous situation and the animals were lunging at him," said Lt. Nicholas Driscoll with the Fort Smith Police.

Greenwood has a law that says all animals must be on a leash. If police can track down the owners, they may be facing charges for violating a city ordinance.

link two one dog has been caught.

Neighbor shoots police officer’s dog after it attacks Jacksonville mailman

dirt nap for HURRICANE
jacksonville, florida

A neighbor with a gun killed a snarling dog Friday after it and another attacked a Jacksonville mailman's truck outside a home in the 1400 block of Panther Run Road.

Police said the 51-year-old mailman had just driven up to the Arlington house about 3:30 p.m. to deliver mail when the two dogs, one a white-and-brown pit bull terrier, ran across the lawn right at him. The dogs, owned by a Jacksonville police officer, barked and growled as they jumped at the mail truck window, rocking the vehicle back and forth as they lunged.

Honking his horn to scare them away, the mailman's screams alerted another neighbor working in his yard next door. Adam Cuppoletti, 34, grabbed his handgun from the kitchen and ran back outside, yelling at the dogs to stop, according to the Sheriff's Office incident report.

As he yelled "no!" and "stop!" several times, the pit bull turned and growled at him from the street, then came his way, the report said. Cuppoletti again shouted "no!" and the dog charged, snarling and baring his teeth.

Cuppoletti fired one shot at its chest and the dog ran back to its yard, leaving a trail of blood before it fell and died. No one was injured, and the other dog disappeared. Cuppoletti, listed in the police report as employed by the U.S. Navy, couldn't be reached for comment.

The officer wasn't home at the time, but police said his front door was wide open when officers checked, and that's how his animals apparently escaped. No charges were filed in the shooting.

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here's hoping Ormond Harrison will one day collect his Darwin Award

syracuse, new york

A Syracuse police officer shot a dog in self-defense Friday afternoon, as an effort to arrest a man wanted on warrant turned violent.

Syracuse Police Sgt. Tom Connellan said police attempted to arrest Ormond Harrison, 36, of Highland Street, around 4:30 p.m., but Harrison ran from police and into the home of an acquaintance at 1041 Highland St.

Harrison at first refused to come out, said Connellan, then told police he would leave the home. Then, Connellan said, Harrison reversed himself and wouldn’t come out.

When police entered the home to apprehend Harrison, he loosed two Rottweiler dogs on them, Connellan said.

Officer Daniel Rathburn was bitten on the hand and leg by one of the dog, before he shot it dead with his gun, Connellan said. The other dog retreated.

Harrison fled the house, jumping from a second story window and landing on his head, Connellan said.

Harrison and Rathburn were both taken to Upstate University Hospital.

Harrison was listed in serious condition.

Connellan said police expected Rathburn would be treated for bite wounds and released.

Police were trying to arrest Harrison on a warrant for violating probation, Connellan said.

Connellan didn’t know what crime had lead to Harrison being on probation.

i have an intense hatred for fucking cowards who use their dogs as a shield. i think it's really too bad this guy didn't turn himself into a vegetable. society will end upp supporting this worthless fucktard anyway, it may as well be on a life support machine.

Woman guns down pit bull to protect her dog

los angeles, california

Police say a woman fatally shot one of two pit bulls that attacked her basset hound Saturday in South Los Angeles.

Officers were notified of the shooting at 835 W. Rosecrans Ave. at around 10:30 a.m. The woman said she and her dog were about to leave their apartment for a walk when the attack happened. She described how the two pit bulls suddenly appeared and lunged at the basset hound.

"She couldn't get the dogs off her dog. She went inside (her apartment) and got a gun," said LAPD Sgt. Philip Thompson. "She was defending her dogs."

The woman called police and was instructed to temporarily hand the gun over to arriving officers, which she did, police said. A large number of people surrounded the scene.

Thompsons said no charges will be filed, and the police did not have injury reports for the basset hound or second pit bull.

Police kill pit bull attacking Salem officer

salem, oregon

Marion County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a pit bull Friday morning that attacked a deputy, minutes after another pit bull tried to jump into a patrol car, investigators said.

The mid-morning incident began with a 9-1-1 call from a man on SE Oda Lane who said a neighbor's 60 to 70-pound pit bull chased him into his house when he tried to put the garbage out.

When deputies arrived, they learned that the dog's owner lived on nearby Beck Lane. The dog was seen unleashed in the yard. It charged the deputies, trying to jump in the open window of the patrol car.

The deputies stayed in the car, honking the horn to get the attention of the owner, who came out of and put the dog behind a fence.

The county animal control officer was called to the home. As one deputy spoke with the owner, the other joined the animal control officer when a second pit bull showed up in the yard and charged the deputy.

Attempts by the owner to call off the dog failed. The deputy kicked the dog several times but the attack continued and the deputy shot the dog dead.

The dog's owner, Luke Fleming was cited for allowing animals to roam at large. The case remained under investigation.

crybaby pit nutter plans to change the law

nice tats! MARCUS ALAN MAYS criminal record available
lagrange, missouri

A LaGrange man who drew national attention after video showing police killing one of his dogs surfaced on the Internet vowed Thursday to seek changes in the law.

Judge Fred Westhoff fined Marcus Mays $50 for failure to register a dog with the city and $100 for failure to have a leash or muzzle on a vicious animal. Mays also must pay court costs of $29.

“We can’t have dogs taking after young children or even adults,” Westhoff said. “It’s just not safe.”

Mays requested the bench trial and represented himself. Afterward, he said he will ask the city to revise its animal ordinances.

“I think if I get enough people together and raise a big enough complaint, maybe they’ll change it,” Mays said.

City Attorney Jeff Curl said he had hoped for a stiffer fine because it would have “sent a message” to dog owners to “follow the ordinance.”

Mays described the animal as an American bulldog, but authorities termed it a pit bull.

The dog, named Cammie, was shot to death on March 31 by Officer Doug Howell.

Video from part of the incident later was posted on YouTube, but it shows fewer than 10 minutes of the 68 minutes that Howell and Officer Jason Powell were on the scene.

The video which was not shown at Thursday’s hearing, was from a police car camera. Mays said a friend of his put it on the Internet.

The officers were responding to a call from LaGrange resident Mary Coleman that the dog had acted threateningly toward her and her daughter as they walked to a school bus stop.

“It was growling at my six-year-old,” Coleman testified. “I wanted my kid to be safe and myself to be safe.”

Mays pointed out that the dog could not have been too angry because Coleman chained it at her home while Howell and Powell went to get special equipment used in handling animals.

The video shows that at one point, the dog laid down on the street and remained motionless for a time.

Howell testified that the dog growled as he tried to load it into a truck, that it later broke free from a chain tied to the vehicle and eventually charged as he tried to capture it with a six-foot catchpole.

Powell described the dog as “aggressive” and “vicious.” Both officers had electroshock weapons, but did not use them because they said the effectiveness would have lasted only five second.

Howell said that he felt the only option to protect the safety of neighbors was to shoot the dog.

Howell fired one shot to the chest, which felled the animal. On the video, the dog can then be seen wagging its tail. Howell said he fired a shot to the head “because I didn’t want the dog to suffer.”

“I didn’t feel it was right how they handled that,” Mays said.

A neighbor of Mays, Frances Hamilton, testified that the animal had previously chased her husband.

Curl pointed out that Mays had pleaded guilty to animal abuse in 2007 and had been ordered not to own pets for two years. Mays argued that the circumstances did not warrant the punishment and that he had pleaded guilty only to avoid a court fight.

Cammie was just a pup when Mays got the female 18 months ago. He said the dog had never been aggressive.

Mays said he has four other dogs – three pit bulls and a mastiff. He said he did not register Cammie because doing so “slipped my mind.” The other four are registered, he said.

Howell and Powell have not been disciplined. Police Chief Dale McNelly said his department is working with the Humane Society of Missouri on additional training in dealing with unruly dogs. The city already has budgeted money for a new animal shelter.

City code defines vicious canines as “any dog(s) that has the appearance and characteristics of being predominantly aggressive” and any “dog(s) not in law enforcement service that has bitten a human being previously or attached another human being previously, whether such occurred within or without” the LaGrange city limits.

Even if his campaign to change the law in unsuccessful, Mays said the fight will be worth it.

“I don’t feel (Cammie) was vicious,” he said. “I feel I stood up for her.”

LaGrange police criticized for dog shooting video

The LaGrange Police Department is coming under fire from the community after a video posted on YouTube and Facebook.

The video shows a LaGrange police officer shooting and killing a mixed-breed pit bull. According to police reports, the dog acted aggressive toward officers and a young child. But the owner is telling a different story.

"She was a big dog, she was playful, she liked to jump around. But she's never acted aggressively toward anybody," says the dog's owner Marcus Mays.

Mary Coleman says the dog attacked her six-year-old daughter.

"I hear a big dog growling and I turn around and it was running towards us. I shut my daughter behind me and I started to yell and kick at it," Coleman said.

It was late March when Coleman and her daughter were waiting for the bus. A dog wrestled out of its leash and came running at Coleman's daughter. Coleman was able to fight off the dog and go back to her trailer to call police.

"It followed me down here and it started acting real calm again. I got the chain around it and fed it some dog food. That might have been the trick, feeding it dog food," Coleman said.

According to the video, the dog looks calm as officers put a collar around its neck and only gets agitated when police use an animal restraint pole.

"These are the people that are protecting the town and they can't even load a dog up into the vehicle? Don't have enough sense to put the pet taxi on the ground," Mays said.

Now that the dog is gone, both Mays and Coleman are left wondering if killing the dog was the right thing to do.

"I felt really bad, I really did. I was like I didn't want them to kill it, I just wanted to get it away from here," Coleman said.

"She came down here and in her last moments she was terrified trying to get away and this is the spot they shot her at," Mays said.

The La Grange Police Department says they cannot comment because the case is under investigation. Mays was cited for having a vicious animal. He pleaded not guilty and his case is expected to go to trail on June 17.

UPDATE i just watched the youtube video of this shooting and i have some serious doubts about whether the police were in the right.

add fear of stairs as a trigger

29 yr old drug dealer ART KEARSE
philadelphia, pennsylvania

A Philadelphia police corporal accidentally was shot in the leg after he and another cop opened fire while serving a search warrant on Thursday morning.

It was just before 10:00 a.m. when two undercover narcotics officers went into a house in the 5700 block of North Lambert Street in the Logan section of Philadelphia.

Police say the officers were attacked by one of two pit bulls that live in the house, and both officers opened fire.

Corporal Lawrence McKenny was shot in the leg, the bullet going right through his left calf. He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated and then sent home.

"Every time they serve a search warrant you don't know what's on the other side of the door," said Lt. Frank Vanore of the Philadelphia Police. "These officers moved past a particular area, cleared it, and this dog came loose and came from behind."

The woman who lives in the house says there was no attack.

Beatrice Baylor says she was trying to put the dogs in the basement as she was told, but one of them named "Blue" is afraid of stairs and freaked out.

"He got in the middle and there was gunshots and everything. I ran right to him," Baylor said. "He was scared."

Police say it appears the dog didn't bite either of the officers. It's not clear yet if Corporal McKenny shot himself or was hit by his partner, Officer Ron McCutchen.

Baylor says they kept shooting even as she fell on Blue trying to shield him.

"She was screaming. You know, they become part of you, like part of your family. So when they scream, I wasn't thinking. They were shooting like crazy, they were down over me shooting," Baylor said.

Police are still trying to sort it all out and they've placed the two officers on administrative duty.

They say they also found the drugs they were looking for and arrested Baylor's 29-year-old son, Art Kearse, who also at the home.

BEATRICE BAYLOR, the drug dealer's mommy said the pit wasn't attacking. she was trying to put him in the basement but he is afraid of stairs.

Sheriff's deputy shoots, kills vicious dog in Flagstaff

flagstaff, arizona

A Coconino County sheriff's deputy was forced to shoot and kill a vicious dog in Flagstaff Wednesday morning.

At approximately 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, a sheriff's deputy responded to a report that a woman was being attacked by a vicious dog as she was standing in a road.

According to Gerry Blair with the Coconino County Sheriff's Office, the victim told the deputy that she was walking on Jupiter Lane with her dog on a leash and pushing a stroller with her 3-year-old child in it.

As she passed a home, a dog that she described as a pit bull ran out of the unfenced yard and approached her and her child in a very aggressive manner. The dog reportedly lunged at the stroller, bit at it and locked its jaws on it.

To protect her child, the woman hit the dog with a metal rod she was carrying and eventually the dog released its grip on the stroller and ran back on the porch of the home.

The deputy attempted to make contact with the dog's owner, but due to the dog's aggressive behavior he was not able to safely enter the yard. Blair said at one point, the dog charged the deputy and he had to run back to his vehicle for protection.

The deputy obtained a phone number for the owner's place of employment and made contact with her. She told the deputy she would not be able to come home until after 3 p.m.

The deputy asked dispatch to send an animal management officer to the residence to tranquilize the dog.

When several neighbors who were familiar with the dog arrived, the dog left the porch and aggressively ran at them as they were standing in the roadway.

Blair said the deputy placed himself between the dog and the two bystanders. As the dog continued to aggressively charge the deputy, he was forced to shoot and kill the advancing animal.

police officers should never retreat to their vehicles, they shoot the dog. home owners should never retreat into their homes or cars for safety. if they are forced to do this, they should come out with guns blazing.

Knife-wielding man arrested, dog shot

DENNIS A BRAVO
pasadena, maryland

A man was charged with stabbing a relative and acquaintance during a fight outside his Pasadena home last night, county police said.

Police said the 35-year-old man had gotten into a heated argument with an 18-year-old relative and 22-year-old friend.

The fight escalated and the man chased the relative and friend onto Oyster Bay Harbour with two knives in his hands.

The man was flailing the knives in the air and chasing two people when officers arrived at just before 8 p.m.

As police approached the armed man, a pit bull ran out from the man’s residence and tried to lunge at an officer.

The officer shot the pit bull once, and the man surrendered to police.

Dennis Bravo, of the 800 block of Oyster Bay Harbour, was charged with three counts of first-degree assault, five counts of second-degree assault and two counts of attempted second-degree murder, police said.

The man’s friend and relative suffered minor injuries.

A relative took the pit bull to the veterinarian for treatment. The dog’s condition was not known this morning.

another psychopathic pit nutter!

73 mph in 45

DUI

no registration

assualt

and now his current charges:

assault first degree, assault second degree, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, resisting/interfering with arrest, possession of pot, attempted 2nd murder, dangerous weapon with intent to injure, malicious destruction of property, failure to obey officer

Pit bull recovering after being shot by Ridgefield Park cop during dog mauling incident

ridgefield park, new jersey

A patrol officer responding to a dog mauling on Friday shot a pit bull when it lunged at him, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Capt. John DiNiro said the incident is the subject of an internal review, which is standard any time an officer fires his weapon, but there is no indication the officer did anything wrong.

DiNiro declined to release the name of the officer who fired the .40-caliber service weapon, but said he is not on any duty restriction.

The pit bull that was shot was treated at the Ridgefield Park Animal Hospital and is recovering, DiNiro said. The dog that was mauled was also treated but did not survive its injuries.

"There’s no indication that the dogs were trained to fight or anything of that nature," DiNiro said.

A resident who lives on the 100 block of Hudson Avenue called police at about 2:45 p.m. to report that three of his pit bulls were attacking a fourth pit bull.

When the four officers arrived, they were brought to the backyard by the resident, who was bleeding. The two officers had difficulty communicating with the resident and couldn’t understand what had happened.

It later turned out that the owner injured himself by trying to separate the dogs by hitting them with a block of wood, DiNiro said.

The officers found the pitbull that was being attacked in "exceptional distress," DiNiro said.

The officers’ main concern was making sure that the dogs didn’t get out of the yard, since a crowd of students had gathered in the front to see what was happening, DiNiro said.

As the officers began to look at the fence, one of the dogs lunged at the two men and the officer fired his weapon.

Bergen County Animal Control arrived soon after and brought two of the dogs to the animal shelter in Teterboro and the other two to the hospital.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office was notified of the shooting but declined to investigate, DiNiro said.

Police are not attempting to hold the dogs, but will ask a municipal judge to list them as vicious — a designation that would require the owner to post signage on his house and notify police immediately if they get out.

Dog shot, killed by D.C. officer

washington dc

A D.C. police officer shot and killed a dog that attacked him while serving a search warrant at a Northwest Washington home Tuesday night, police said.

Police say the dog – described as pit bull-like – bit the officer during the incident about 9:40 p.m. in the 1300 block of 5th Street NW, a few blocks from the Mount Vernon Square Metro station.

The officer then shot the dog, which ultimately died, said Lt. Nick Bruel, a police spokesman.

The officer’s condition was not immediately known.

Boca cop shoots pitbull; upset owner to put dog to sleep

boca raton, florida

To Officer Jeremy Codling, the pit bull charging him was out to kill or maim, authorities said. So he shot him one time, hitting him under the eye.

To owner Summer Davis, the 75-pound dog named Max is an overgrown puppy and doesn't see why such fatal force had to be used.

"I know my dogs," Davis said. "They're nicer than cocker spaniels." YEAH, right!

Officers went to the 2200 block of Northwest Third Avenue around 7 p.m. Tuesday after getting a call about two loose pit bulls running the streets. When police got there they found neighbor Everett Hill.

Hill pointed to the front of the house where the dogs lived and said he was outside when the dogs began charging him and he had to jump in his truck to avoid being attacked, police said.

Davis took Max, 6, to Coral Springs Animal Hospital late Tuesday where he remained Wednesday. He's bleeding profusely and she said he'd have to be put to sleep.

Neighbor Adam Faustini told officers he noticed the front door open in the 2200 block of Northwest Third Court and when he pulled into the driveway to check the house, the dogs ran out and charged him also.

As officers got within 30 yards of the house, police said, the two pit bulls, Max and Kast, ran out an open front door and began barking and charging.

The two officers backed up and yelled at the dogs to stop, police spokesman Mark Economou said. As Max got within 10 feet of officers, Codling drew his handgun and fired one shot, hitting the dog below the left eye, police said.

After the second dog ran into the house, the officers were able to close the door. No one was home at the time.

It is nearly impossible to use a stun gun effectively on an animal, Economou said, especially when it's running toward you.

"The width of a dog isn't wide enough," he said. "If you're shooting down at a fast moving object, it's hard to hit with both prongs."

Many of the residents in the cul-de-sac neighborhood off Glades Road have dogs, and over the past year police have been called five times for stray dogs, and one bite, police records show.

Davis has been the subject of two other complaints, in 2003 and 2004 for noisy and loose dogs, records show.

Palm Beach County Animal Care & Control is investigating the current case.

When Davis got home Tuesday night, she told police she must not have secured the door when she left earlier in the day.

"I don't know why you're allowed to rip out your gun and shoot an animal," Davis said Wednesday. "I guarantee if it were a German shepherd or golden retriever they wouldn't have shot it." FUCKING MORON!

Western Pa. Police Kill Pit Bull After Dog Attack

pittsburgh, pennsylvania

Police in western Pennsylvania say an officer shot a pit bull after it attacked another dog.

Pittsburgh police say the woman was walking her bulldog in a North Side neighborhood on Wednesday morning when two pit bulls roaming the area approached and one of them bit her dog on the hind leg.

Police say the woman and a passer-by as well as the officer tried to stop the attack, using everything from a shoe to a police baton to a Taser, but nothing worked. Police say the pit bull then turned toward the officer and bared its teeth, and the officer fired four times, killing the dog.

Police were unable to find the second pit bull. They say the owner will be cited for letting the dogs run free.

Police shoot dog after man is attacked

corpus christi, texas

The director of Animal Control says a dog shot by a Corpus Christi police officer was taken to an emergency hospital.

Last night police responded to a call of a man attacked by two dogs on Wild Horse Valley.

When police arrived, one of the dogs attacked them too.

One officer drew his weapon and fired at the animal. The bullet grazed the dog's head and went through its shoulder.

Police say the owners of the dog were very understanding and upset their dogs got out and hurt someone.

If the dog survives, it will be quarantined for ten days.

second link

A dog that attacked a man on Tuesday was shot and wounded when police arrived.

The man told police he was walking home from the store about 7:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of Mountain View Drive when two dogs got loose from a yard and pounced on him, knocking him down.

The man, who wasn’t seriously injured, was able to break free and call police from his house.

When officers arrived, the dogs began barking and barring their teeth, police said.

An officer shot and wounded one of the dogs to prevent from being bitten, police said. The owners of the dog, described as a large brown boxer, were contacted and unaware their dogs were out.

The owner took the injured dog to the veterinarian.

Animal Control took the other dog, described as a small, gray husky, into custody for tests, police said.

The owner was ticketed for not restraining the dogs.

CAN'T be a pit bull! the owner was upset that their dogs got out and hurt someone. having more concern for the victim than his own is not a pit nutter trait.

Deputy shoots pit bull

salisbury, north carolina

An off-duty deputy sheriff shot a neighbor's pit bull when it came charging into his yard at his three small dogs.

According to a Salisbury Police report, Deputy Richard Hadley of Keystone Drive was walking his three small dogs in his yard Friday around 9 a.m.

Hadley said a neighbor's pit bull, known as Red, came charging at them in an aggressive manner, barking and growling.

Hadley told police that the dog has a reputation of running loose and for attacking small dogs in the neighborhood.

As the dog charged toward him and his dogs, Hadley drew his handgun and fired one round at the pit bull, which was within 10 feet of him. The dog went to the ground.

Hadley notified the dog's owner, Kimberly Hamilton, of the incident.

According to police, she took her dog to a veterinarian's office for treatment. The bullet did not strike a vital organ.

As a result of this incident, Rowan County Animal Control declared the pit bull to be a dangerous animal.

Chief Rory Collins said witness corroborated the information given by Hadley.

Information on the status of the dog was not available.

henrietta township, ohio

A man was mauled to death in a violent attack by his own dogs in his own driveway in Lorain County Tuesday afternoon.

The incident happened on State Route 511 in Henrietta Township.

Lorain County Sheriff’s deputies said an assortment of eight to 10 dogs were kept in a fenced-in yard that extended from the back to the front of the home. The 30-year-old victim, Michael Winters, and his father, Michael Kywa, both lived there.

Investigators said around 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, the father left the house and then returned at about 12:15 p.m. At some point during that period, his son came home and was attacked by the dogs in the driveway.

Kywa called 911. When emergency crews arrived, they pronounced Winters dead at the scene.

The coroner said Winters had been bitten many times and it appears several dogs were possibly involved in the attack.

Deputies rounded up the dogs and put them down, per the father’s request. But some are still believed to be loose.

Lorain County man mauled to death by family dogs

A 30-year-old man was killed by his family's dogs Tuesday in southern Lorain County and officials said all the dogs must be put down.

Michael Winters was found dead by his father shortly after noon. He and his father, Michael Kywa, rescued stray dogs and cared for them at their home on Ohio 511. They attempted to find homes for the dogs in their care.

They had about a dozen dogs of various sizes and breeds at the house. Officials said some or all of the dogs turned on Winters. But investigators don't know why.

Kywa left the house about 11:20 a.m. and returned almost an hour later to find Winters lying in his own blood in the driveway.

"He had hundreds of bite wounds all over his body," county Coroner Paul Matus, said. "His clothes were ripped off. He was bleeding heavily."

The dogs may have acted as a pack in attacking Winters, he said.

"When dogs develop a pack mentality, they can launch an attack on someone," he said. "I have never seen anything like this and I've been here since the 1970s."

Officials believe more than one dog attacked Winters. They declined to list the breeds of the dogs at the house, but one was thought to be a Rottweiler.

"We captured all of the dogs," Sgt. Donald Barker said. "Police killed two of the dogs immediately because they were aggressive toward police officers."

All of the dogs taken into custody will be killed.

"We have no way of determining which dogs took part in the attack," he said.

Authorities and neighbors said the dogs on the property ranged from small dogs to a 200-pound Mastiff. It appeared that Winters and Kywa took good care of the animal, officials said.

Steve Bungard, who works for a landscaping company two properties from Winters' home, said that the dogs would run up and bark whenever someone got too close to the property.

Neighbors were upset with the number of dogs at the house.

"This is horrible," said Bungard. "These were very quiet people. People never had a problem with them."

Police: Man shot, killed attacking pit bull

derry, new hampshire

A dog owner shot and killed a pitbull Sunday afternoon when it attacked his dog in the owner's back yard, police said yesterday.

Police said the incident took place about 5:30 p.m. at 35 South Ave. The resident told police he had been having problems with the pitbull, which lives in the neighborhood, said Sgt. Eric Kester.

Kester said an investigation is continuing, and the names of the shooter and pitbull owner were unavailable last night. Kester said the pitbull had bitten the South Avenue resident's dog several times, and a warning shot did not deter the attack.

"He felt he had to put the pitbull down because it was killing his dog," Kester said. He said police are not looking at criminal charges, because the level of force was consistent with what was happening to the shooter's pet.

He said more than one shot was fired into the pitbull.

Pit Bulls Attack Sterling Heights Woman

sterling heights, michigan

A Sterling Heights woman is attacked by pit bulls while outside with her pets. Police had to step in to rescue the woman. It happened as the city is considering restrictions or even an outright band on pit bulls.

"It actually bit right through my tennis shoes, got my foot," said Cathy Kovak.

She was working in her front yard garden Sunday afternoon. She had her two cocker spaniels with her and they were chained. That's when two pit bulls kept in the yard next door got out under a fence and attacked Cathy and her dogs.

"I had nightmares all night and I never want to see another pit bull in my life. When that thing came at me it was horrible," Kovak said.

Cathy suffered numerous bites and contusions from the older pit bull, but it could have been worse. Fortunately, she had recently had knee surgery and was using a cane.

"When I tried to get him off, the big one came after me and just he didn't let go. If I wouldn't of had (the cane), I'd be dead," said Kovak.

Two neighbors helped Cathy fight off the dogs as Sterling Heights Police responded to a 911 call.

"One of the dogs came at him aggressively. He was forced to fire a single shot at it, injured the dog," said Sterling Heights Police Lt. Luke O'Riley.

The wounded dog was destroyed and the other taken to an animal shelter for observation. The owner, who was not home at the time, was charged.

"The owner of the animals was from the neighborhood there and was cited for harboring a vicious dog and dogs running at-large," O'Riley said.

The attack comes at a time discussions are underway in Sterling Heights to severely restrict if not outright ban pit bulls in the city.

Critics of breed bans argue it's not the animals but their owners who are responsible for attacks like that on Cathy.

"I just hope that he's punished for what happened and pit bulls are banned from Sterling Heights," said Tom Kovak, the victim's son.

Residents file complaint after dog killed

walton, georgia

By Robbie Schwartz

The Walton Tribune

Published June 13, 2010

The owner of a pit bull shot and killed by a Social Circle Department of Public Safety officer June 2 filed a complaint against the officer, saying the situation could have been avoided.

“The animal had complied with orders and retreated back into the house,” read the complaint filed by Donnis Cheek. “At this time, the officer could have gone back to his car and notified animal control of the situation and requested assistance or perhaps contacted a neighbor for help. I feel the officer had no right or reason to enter the residence which inherently would provoke some type of response from the dog that lived there. The animal had responded as ordered the first time and has no history of any type of aggression in the five years she has lived with me.

“The officer stated that the animal lunged at him, however the shot that was fired struck the dog in the middle of the back of her head between the ears, which is in no way consistent with a shot being fired at a dog that is attacking.”

According to the incident report, SCDPS officer Andy Arrow arrived at the Cedar Street residence in reference to a bicycle on the front porch which matched the description of one stolen earlier from Boxwood Street. Arrow knocked on the door, no one was home but the door opened because it was not shut properly. Soon after, Cheek’s pit bull Shelby came out of the house, barking and charging at the officer, according to the report. The officer said he drew his weapon while taking steps backward and giving commands for the dog to get back. The dog went in the house and, according to the officer’s account, as he was in the process of getting off the porch the dog “came after me again.” He fired one shot, striking the dog “in the top of the head.”

According to SCDPS officials, Arrow stated he felt the dog was going to attack him, that he gave loud verbal commands for the dog to stop as he attempted to gain distance and drew his duty weapon. The officer reported the dog stopped, backed towards the open front door of the residence but before Arrow could get off the porch, the dog came back after him and he was forced to shoot the dog, according to SCDPS officials.

“The officer’s in-car camera recorded the homeowner’s son, who walked to the scene after the incident had occurred, stating that he had asked the homeowner to secure the door on many occasions in the past and that he understood that he felt threatened by the dog and that he was unsure as to whether the dog would have bitten him or not,” said Lt. Scott Ford. “It is unfortunate that the dog had to be destroyed, however all citizens and officers are afforded protection by state law to defend themselves from being attacked. I would like to offer my deepest regret to the entire Cheek family for the loss of their dog and am only thankful that it was an officer that was capable of protecting himself who encountered the unsecured dog and not a child selling cookies or a postman attempting to deliver a package.”

The incident is still under review and SCDPS Director Tom Fox will be investigating the responsibilities and actions of all parties.

But Cheek and her family find fault with the officer’s account. They were told the officer ordered the dog back into the house and Shelby did so. When the officer proceeded to step inside the house to close the door, the dog began to approach the officer.

“If Shelby was here today, she would come out and sit right there next to you,” said Cheek’s son James. “How could a 2-year-old throw her arms around this ‘vicious’ dog? We have children coming in and out of this house, some Shelby knew, some she didn’t. But she never attacked one of them.

“When he went inside, I think her intent was to get him off the porch. Do I think she lunged at him? No. If she had lunged at him, she would have bit him."

The dog was estimated to be at least 12.

Police shoot 2 dogs

mississauga, ontario

A Peel police officer shot and killed two dogs in Mississauga last night.

Several people called police after two American Pit Bull Terriers were found without their owners. The dogs were seen acting aggressively towards some people, including children in the Indian Road and Mississauga Road area around the dinner hour.

The officer was forced to use his gun after the dogs would not settle down.

"No officers were injured, no citizens were injured and no other pets or animals were injured," Sgt. Russ Anderson said.

The owner was later located but police have not yet laid charges.

another news source is reporting these dogs as english bull terriers.

Pit bulls attack neighbor's dogs

oklahoma county, oklahoma

An Oklahoma family wants their neighbor to get rid their Pit Bull dogs after they say the dogs viciously attacked and killed two family pets. The dogs are located in Oklahoma County where there are no leash laws. Authorities say they have only one complaint on file about the dogs, but say they need one more before they can officially do anything about them.

Animals are not considered vicious until they bite a person or another animal.

Picture after picture, the images are hard to look at, but they are all Tabbi Van Houtte has of her little dog.

She says her pet was attacked twice earlier this year by several pit bulls that live next door to her sister; her dog did not survive the second attack.

"They need to be taken away and put to sleep. They are vicious dogs," Van Houtte said. "Eventually it's going to be a child."

Tuesday they attacked again, this time mauling a small Toy Manchester Terrier that belonged to Van Houtte's sister Christa Meyer.

"Nickles" had been in the family for years.

Meyer says she and her husband let the dog out for a break, but Nickles never made it back inside their home.

"We walked outside and the two pit bulls were standing over the body of my little eleven pound dog," she said.

They say Oklahoma County Sheriff's Deputies told them they could protect themselves and their property.

That is when Meyer's husband took matters into his own hands.

"My husband and I were outside and they started coming toward us so he started shooting the dogs," she said. "He hit two of them and we found out last night that one of them was put to sleep that night."

The family says they talked to the owner of the Pit Bulls, but say the problem is not going away; at least one of the dogs hasn't gone anywhere.

"I am scared for my children," Meyer said. "My six year old is now scared to go outside."

County authorities say after a second offense, they can take criminal action against the owners.

The family's only option before then is to take the case up in civil court.

The owner of the dogs contacted NewsChannel 4 after this story aired.

She would not leave her name but said two of the dogs have died.

She also said she would get rid of the third dog within the next week.

Four Gunshots Kill Camden Family Dog

camden, south carolina

A family in Camden is emotionally charged after their dog was shot and killed for wandering onto a neighbor's property.

A man is charged with Breach of the Peace while another is charged with malicious injury to property; it happened Wednesday night after James Douglas King shot the Brazell's dog 'Homie' four times.

"He was so playful", a tearful Brandon Bradwell sits on his porch, sobbing over the death of his year and a half old dog 'Homie'. After letting the dog out into the back yard to use the bathroom, 'Homie' jumped the fence and wandered into a neighbor's yard. That's when Brandon heard gunshots from his neighbor's house.

"I heard a dog yelp, and then ka-pow, ka-pow, ka-pow, ka-pow. It sounded like a jet engine over my house."

Brandon ran around the side of the house to see what happened. There's where he saw his neighbor standing over his dog with a .45 caliber revolver.

"I said, why you shooting my dog? Why you shooting my dog? That's when i ran into the house and got (my dad)", said fifteen year old Bradwell, "he fell on his back and was wagging his tail at me, and I couldn't do nothing".

His neighbor King was charged with malicious injury to property while Brandon's dad Barry, was charged with Breach of Peace, for causing a commotion in front of law enforcement and threatening King.

According to the Kershaw County Sheriff's incident report, "King said he walked outside and the dog was in his yard and he tried to run the dog off with a PVC pipe. He states that the dog charged him and he went inside and got his pistol and shot the dog four times."

But who is right? A neighbor may have killed his dog; but according to the law, the dog should not have been on the neighbor's property. It's something Brandon says he will never forget.

"It's the worse thing I have ever seen in my life."

There will be a court hearing in Camden at the Kershaw County Court on June 15th.

Atlantic City police shoot and kill pit bull

atlantic city, new jersey

Atlantic City police officers shot and killed a pit bull Friday evening when it tried to attack an animal control officer and children playing basketball on Madison Avenue, according to police.

Sgt. Monica McMenamin said that officers were called at 5:50 p.m. to the Uptown Complex park, where two pit bulls were chasing children. The officers said one dog bit and deflated a basketball and children were standing on a park bench trying to get away from them.

McMenamin said police tried to leash the dogs but they would not listen to commands, and around 6:20 one of the dogs ran away.

An animal control officer arrived around 6:30 p.m. and tried to restrain the dog with a pole leash, but the dog turned and charged, and missed, the officer. When the dog circled back around, the three police officers on the scene fired and killed the animal.

McMenamin said the officers had to fire multiple times because the dog continued coming toward them after being shot once.

Police are still looking for the dogs' owner as well as the missing pit bull.

Pit bull puppy survives gunshot

unionville, new york

Police say a Unionville man pumped a .40-caliber round into a neighbor's 6-month-old dog Thursday night, claiming the dog had charged at him.

One of the puppy's owners, Jessica Iribarren, rushed the dog to an emergency veterinarian. She said the puppy, a pit bull named Bully, is being cared for at Hamptonburgh Animal Hospital in Campbell Hall.

The incident happened just before 8 p.m. Thursday on Orchard Street in Unionville. According to state police, homeowner Travis Stocker told troopers he was mowing his lawn when he saw a couple of pit bulls running around near the backyard, where his toddler daughter was. He said he fired a warning shot from a .40-caliber handgun to scare off the dogs, but one of them circled around and came at him, so he shot it.

Stocker's phone number is not listed.

Iribarren said her 4-year-old niece, who was visiting, had accidentally let the dogs out. Scott Walker, Iribarren's boyfriend, said he was inside with their 6-month-old baby when he heard two gunshots. He said he stepped outside and saw his neighbor taking aim at Bully.

"My dog was running away from him, and he shot him in the back," Walker said.

Iribarren got home just after the shooting.

"I just put the dog in the car and drove him to the hospital," she said. "That's like my family member that they just shot."

State police said the incident is under investigation, and the district attorney's office will determine if charges will be filed.

Iribarren said the dogs — Bully and 9-month-old Blaze, a female pit — have gotten loose before by jumping over a fence, but they're very friendly.

Iribarren and Walker said they're out $1,000 in veterinary bills, and Bully will have to stay at the vet to recuperate. The bullet missed any vital organs, Iribarren said, so Bully should recover.

"He's just in so much pain," she said.

TASERS DON'T WORK!!

midlothian, illinois

A Midlothian police officer had to use his Taser on a dog that charged him, police said.

This time the department included it on its official report.

The incident happened Wednesday when the officer was on patrol and noticed two loose dogs fighting.

The report stated that when the officer got out of his car, one of the dogs came after him and he "had no choice but to use my Taser."

The report then stated the dog ran away howling. NOW there is an aggressive dog in pain running around loose. STUPID!

The incident follows another one in which a Midlothian police officer used a Taser with more serious results.

The officer pulled over Jaesun Ingles, 31, of Riverdale, on March 10 for traffic violations. He smelled marijuana coming from the car and recovered a small amount of it from Ingles, police said. Ingles then struggled with police, tried to flee the scene and tried swallowing a plastic bag police thought contained more drugs when an officer used a Taser on him, police said.

After getting him under control, an officer noticed Ingles was having trouble breathing and called for an ambulance. Ingles died just after midnight, officials said.

Police originally indicated a Taser was used on Ingles but then left its use off the incident's official report.

On Friday, Police Chief Vince Schavone defended his department.

"We were told by the state police that they wanted a basic report (of the Ingles incident), and we were doing what we were told," he said.

The Cook County medical examiner's office ruled last month that Ingles' death was an accident, the result of choking on a plastic bag he was trying to swallow.