Knox County, Tennessee – A couple is suing over the fatal shooting of a family dog by a Knox County Sheriff’s Office deputy that was captured on body camera footage. Attorney John Boucher Jr. has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of Kenny Bailey and wife Tina Bailey against KCSO and the … Read more
WICHITA, Kan. – An officer with the Wichita Police Department is on administrative leave following a shooting incident reported Saturday night at a northeast Wichita home. No one was seriously injured, but a family is upset after a fragment from a shot fired by the officer struck a nine-year-old girl and required her to be … Read more
Blood stains at the end of the Crawford County, Georgia driveway had been covered up with sand Monday in the spot where a dog was beheaded with a kitchen knife early evening Friday. Clumps of dog hair were still visible on the blood-soaked blue collar nearby. Joe Nate Goodwin says he decapitated his 2-year-old dog … Read more
PASSAIC – As an animal control officer for Bergen County, John Timmins says he knows what it’s like to have to capture an aggressive dog. You have to be careful, vigilant and patient. But, he says, in the 17 years he’s been on the job, he has never ordered a police officer to shoot an animal. So, … Read more
A Red Bluff Police officer shot two St. Bernard dogs Sunday morning that he said were acting viciously and aggressively. But at least one person in the neighborhood where the shooting happened disputes police accounts of the incident, noting the dogs weren’t acting aggressively in the minutes leading up to their shooting. “That whole entire … Read more
TARPON SPRINGS – A family dog is making a miraculous recovery after it was shot in the chest by a Tarpon Springs police officer who said the dog tried to bite him several times. The dog, a chocolate Lab-Besanji mix named Karuso, somehow got out of the family’s backyard and went straight to Craig Park, … Read more
A sheriff’s deputy in Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, killed a family’s dog last month. The clop claims the dog charged at him aggressively three times before he felt the need to shoot it. The family denies this—and says the officer killed the dog in front of the children. The deputy was responding to a harassment call … Read more
A Tulsa County Sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday after allegedly stealing a dog from a yard last month. Justin Kaczynski, 39, was booked into the Tulsa Jail on a count of larceny of a dog and was released within 10 minutes after posting the $2,500 bond. The charge was filed against him earlier in the … Read more
One Ville Platte family is looking for answers after they say a deputy from the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office shot and killed their son’s dog. The deputy was responding to a house call regarding harassment from a neighbor when the dog got out. In a report, the deputy said the dog aggressively charged at the … Read more
A Mansfield family is mourning the death of their five-year-old Great Dane after an off-duty officer fatally shot the dog as children played nearby. “I want to see some justice. I want him to have some accountability,” said the dog’s owner, Carol Evans. The off-duty police officer was walking his own dog Sunday evening in … Read more
A police officer can shoot a dog if it barks or moves when the officer enters a home, under a new federal court ruling issued this month. The ruling comes after police in Battle Creek, Michigan, shot two pit bulls while searching a home for evidence of drugs in 2013. The dogs’ owners, Mark and … Read more
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. – A Southaven police K-9 is dead after it was left in the back of a hot squad car. The police chief has said the dog should have never died. Chief Steven Pirtle said there are normally alarms in K-9 cars to prevent a tragedy like this from happening. The alarms sound a … Read more