Loose Dog is Shot by Maplewood Police on New Year's Eve
The dog, which is owned by a Maplewood resident, was charging the officer, a police report notes.
When Anna Ciaravino heard two loud pops outside her Maplewood home on New Year's Eve, she thought they were fireworks. But when she looked through her window, she saw a Maplewood police officer with his gun raised. She checked her fenced backyard, where Emmy, her 5-year-old German shepherd-mix dog, had been minutes ago, but she was gone. "I went to the front door, my neighbor was knocking on it," said Ciaravino, 61, who lives in the 7600 block of Weaver Avenue. "I opened it, and there was Emmy in a pool of blood." The officer had been patrolling the neighborhood when he saw the dog running loose in the street and front yards in the 7700 block of Weaver Avenue, said Det. Sgt. Matt Nighbor in the Maplewood Police Department's report of the …
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Deb Alden
12:02 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
I know this dog this dog is vicious it was banned from the dog park for going after people and dogs more ›