FLORIDA -- Three police officers who fired their weapons at dogs in three different incidents this summer were cleared of any wrongdoing by a shooting review board on Thursday.
The incidents in which the dogs were shot:
*Three officers were investigating a domestic incident on July 25 when they entered a home at 843½ 16th Ave. N, according to police. They were met by an aggressive pit bull terrier, police said, which the residents could not control.
The dog charged Officer Jereme Hayes and kept him from leaving the house. Fearing officer injury, he shot and killed the dog.
*A report of a vicious dog brought two officers to 1733 29th Ave. N on Aug. 1. But when a neighbor tried to help police corral the dog, the agency said it charged him and Officer Matthew Kirchgraber.
Kirchgraber drew his weapon and fired twice. The pit bull terrier was wounded but ran away and wasn't found.
*Officer Curtis Wright was answering an Aug. 19 animal complaint at 2165 Country Club Court N, according to police, when two pit bull terrier mixes attacked a county animal control worker.
Wright killed one of the animals and the other ran away but was later captured. The worker suffered "significant injury" to both arms.
(St Petersburg Times - Sept 30, 2011)
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