AMBRIDGE, Pa. — A misplaced canine was shot and killed by an Ambridge police officer Friday, simply hours after being discovered by Samaritan.
“I’m mortified. I just can’t the vision out of my head,” stated a girl who works close to the police station and noticed the encounter unfold. She spoke to 11 News anonymously.
“I just can’t even fathom what I saw today. There’s no words to describe it. I’m going to see that probably for the rest of my life,” the witness stated.
Police had the feminine grownup Mastiff after Jane Stadnik discovered the canine earlier within the day whereas on a walk by way of her neighborhood.
“This dog runs across in front of us with a leash dragging behind it,” Stadnik stated.
She and her husband spent over an hour looking for the canine’s proprietor.
When they couldn’t, they known as Ambridge police.
An officer got here and picked up the canine and the division made a put up on Facebook writing, “If anyone knows who owns this pleasant pup please call the Ambridge Police Dept immediately.”
In an announcement to 11 News Ambridge Police Chief John DeLuca stated, partly, “While trying to get the dog out of the kennel it became aggressive towards an officer and tried to bite him in the hand. When the officer went to back up the dog escaped out of the kennel biting the officer in the knee. The officers then tried to catch the dog with a dog pole and in the process, the dog turned and lunged towards an officer. At that time the officer discharged his weapon striking the dog.”
“There was just blood everywhere. He had his head in his hands and he said, ‘She came after me,” and I went, ‘What did you do?’ I used to be simply mortified,” the witness stated.
Police then coated the canine, however in keeping with witnesses, the canine was not useless and finally needed to be shot once more to be put down.
“At one point I saw the boards flop up because she sat back up, so she was not dead, so she laid there and suffered for a good half an hour, 40 minutes,” the witness stated.
Ambridge police stated an IT specialist will probably be going by way of their video surveillance footage on Monday to see if the incident was caught on digicam.
If the canine did belong to somebody, police want to proprietor to succeed in out to them.
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