Park Co Deputy Accused of Shooting Neighbor's Dog

Family says off-duty sheriff’s deputy killed their 16-year-old dog
by David Mitchell and Julie Hayden
September 3, 2013

PARK COUNTY, Colo. — A family in Park County southwest of Denver is looking for answers after an off-duty sheriff’s deputy shot and killed their dog.

The German Shepherd was at home near Bailey Saturday while Brown and her family were at a wedding in Denver. Sunday morning another neighbor came over and told the family what he saw. “He said ‘well the guy right there shot your dog last night, and he took him over by the mailboxes and he just dumped him.’” Later Saturday neighborhood kids found the dog dumped in a ditch nearby with a pair of bloody gloves next to the animal.

Park County Sheriff Fred Wagner says the deputy was off-duty at the time and the sheriff’s department is investigating the incident. Brown says she doesn’t want her neighbor fired, but she does wish he had gone through some training.

More info here...

http://kwgn.com/2013/09/03/family-says-off-duty-sheriffs-deputy-killed-their-16-year-old-dog/

The dog looks nothing even close to a coyote to me...

http://localtvkwgn.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/promo202536919.jpg?w=603

It is the culture........the Sheriff is responsible and is up for election......add this to the attack on the beer keg last year with teens near at Wellington......is there a problem ??

How do you measure this turnaround.....and how does the same leadership suddenly "get religion".....seems unlikely. More events will probably happen.....always does. Failed cultures rarely heal themselves from within.

At least the deputy needs to take an eye test and remedical flash cards comparing coyotes to dog breeds.

Sad to read this. The officer in question is one of the better deputies who cares about his work. Wouldn't say that about a lot of them. Too bad he made such an idiotic decision.

I am missing some info possibly......investigation IF made public will help even if internal. Questions many have are:

Was it dark.......
Was the animal on cops property.......where was it shot (blood samples will tell us that).
Was there a history of this behavior in cops background ........

Many unanswered issues....is DA looking at this with one of his people in the field ??

Recall in JEFFCO recently we had a citizen tazed (U hhhhhhh......KILLED) by a deputy .... citizen was armed with a ......BB Gun.......on his own property. What ???

A protection all citizens can consider is camera surveillance on property feeding a server on internet.....cheap and very effective. Recall Boulder cops were nailed by cameras----they lied all the way to the courthouse as I recall.

This is indeed "not normal".... If I am on my property and having lived for some time next to a neighbor with a Shepard (the family pet) and in the worst of circumstances I am attacked and carrying a gun (most of us have guns but do not carry around the yard) it is possible I could mistake the Shepard for a coyote .....but not likely......kill the pet by mistake. OK give the cop that....but as reported here I then pick up the family pet and instead of taking it next door and apologizing for my mistake, I dump the dog in a ditch.........What ???......what???

OH well guess ue will wait for the "official" internal investigation.