By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-22 20:59:13 | Updated at 2024-11-23 01:44:31
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Tenn. Man Came Home to Find His 7 Dogs Shot Dead, and Sheriff’s Deputy Is Charged
People ^ | November 18, 2024 | KC Baker
Posted on 11/22/2024 12:56:23 PM PST by Morgana
A Tennessee man is grieving the deaths of his seven dogs who were shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy while the owner and his wife were out to dinner.
On Monday, Nov. 4, Kevin Dismuke and his wife left their home in McNairy County to go to dinner, Fox 13 reports.
When his wife returned to their home on Finger Leapwood Road, she called him with shocking news.
“She said, ‘Poe is dead,’” he said, referring to one of their pet dogs.
According to News 3, Dismuke said he returned home to find all of his dogs except one were dead.
“They were told the property was abandoned and the dogs were malnourished,” Dismuke added, News 3 reports. “I got the veterinary paperwork in my truck from three weeks ago. They all had a clean bill of health on them.”
Dismuke said a neighbor told him a deputy came to his house while he was gone and shot the dogs, Fox 13 reports.
Dismuke and his family are heartbroken over the deaths of their beloved dogs.
“I don’t care if you give me $10 if you give me $10 million," he told News 3. "You can’t replace my dogs.”
According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which launched an investigation on Nov. 7, the incident began when the McNairy County Sheriff’s Department received an animal welfare concern call on Nov. 4.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalwelfarecalls; swat; swatted
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Officer is doing an "animal welfare check" on the dogs and kills all of them.
Seems like Roscoe P. Coltrane did not fully understand the assignment now did he?
1 posted on 11/22/2024 12:56:23 PM PST by Morgana
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