Police came to investigate a domestic disturbance. They later killed a neighbor’s dog.
.jpg "A Hallandale Beach police officer shot and killed a rottweiler, who police said was charging at them. The dog’s owner, Isabel Espinosa, said the rottweiler, Luna, wasn’t charging and being aggressive.")
A domestic disturbance Sunday night led to a Hallandale Beach officer shooting a neighbor’s dog.
Around 11 p.m., the officers wrapped up a call reporting a domestic disturbance near the 300 block of Southwest Ninth Avenue, police said. As a sergeant was going back to his car, he saw a Rottweiler barking and running back and forth in front of a neighboring home.
The dog got loose from the yard and police say it “charged towards the sergeant,” who then pulled out a gun and shot the dog.
It ran back to its home and collapsed in the driveway. Police took it to the Hollywood Animal Hospital, where it later died.
Isabel Espinosa said that wasn’t what happened to her dog, Luna.
Espinosa told Local 10 that she was the one who made the domestic disturbance call and that Luna was shot three times, once in the heart.
“The dog definitely wasn’t charging at [the officer],” Espinosa said. “If he had felt threatened, he would’ve shot the dog straight, not on the side because it went through on the side.”
Espinosa’s neighbor, Jim Mitchell, told WSVN 7News that Luna wasn’t an aggressive dog.
“First of all, it’s not an aggressive dog at all. The dog just was running around,” he said. “There was no barking involved. There was no growling involved or anything.”
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