BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Three dogs who fatally mauled a person dwelling at a Juniper Ridge homeless camp final summer time, resulting in their proprietor’s responsible plea to criminally negligent murder and three-year jail time period, will probably be humanely euthanized below an order signed Tuesday by the Deschutes County Dog Board.
The board reviewed proof and testimony earlier than issuing the order that the dogs DJ, Littlez and Precious, housed at Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center at county expense, “be humanely euthanized.”
“The Dog Board finds that the three dogs were all actively involved in the attack/mauling death” final July of Joseph Keeton, and that “the dogs are dangerous” as outlined below state statute and by court docket judgement.
“By virtue of the forfeiture ordered by the Circuit Court, the dogs presently have no owner or keeper,” the order acknowledged.
Jessica Rae (Charity) McCleery, 38, agreed to a negotiated responsible plea to costs of criminally negligent murder and sustaining a harmful canine after her three pit bull-mastiff dogs killed the 56-year-old man. She was sentenced final month.
Deputy District Attorney Rosalie Beaumont informed Circuit Judge Wells Ashby that the three dogs beforehand despatched three folks to the hospital with accidents, as soon as when McCleery was current. She stated the crime was “entirely preventable, if she’d adequately tied up her dogs or kept them contained that night.”
