“The whole time they conducted their investigation the dogs were out here laying right here,” said Hardaway.
Glenn Presley, a Harris County Sheriff's Office investigator who assisted during the drug bust didn't see the deputy pull out the gun. He said the dogs were acting aggressively as they were wrapping up their investigation.
“I heard the dogs rush, I heard the growling, sounded like several dogs in a frenzy and then I heard two shots and that's when I looked over and saw some of the dogs scatter and the other dog of course was shot,” said Investigator Presley.
That shot dog was Sheba and Hardaway said his pit bull didn't do anything threatening to deserve a bullet.
“I guess he was running towards the car because I guess mission accomplished or whatever and the dog growled at him, jumped at him, he hopped back and pow pow. The other guy said hey what happened, dog jumped at me, won’t be doing that no more,” said Hardaway.
Hardaway said he witnessed everything from inside his home while the Harris County Sheriff's Office said he wasn't even there.
“We knocked on the door no one was there. We made sure no one was home,” said Investigator Presley.
“Tell the truth or tell your officer to tell the truth… didn't knock on my door to tell me I shot your dog out here,” said Hardaway.
[He says he 'witnessed everything from inside his home'... if that were true, what kind of person sees their dog shot and doesn't go outside? Especially if you are upset about the fact that your dog has been shot... you just sit in your house quietly and don't make a peep? As Judge Judy says, it doesn't make sense and when it doesn't make snese it's not true.]
Hardaway said he was left with his dead dog in the back of his yard for about a day and a half.
“I do know that animal control didn't pick up the carcass right away and that probably upset him he called me that next day and told me that the animal was still there. At that point I called animal control to just get him to go back out there and get the animal,” said Harris County Sheriff Mike Jolley.
Sheriff Jolley said while he wasn't at the drug bust he stands by his deputy's decision.
“The deputy was in his legal rights within our policy rights and he took the appropriate action,” said Sheriff Jolley.
(WRBL - Nov 8, 2011)
