CALIFORNIA -- Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a loose pit bull that charged to attack them on a golf course Tuesday evening as they searched for a man who had been harassing patrons at a nearby gas station, a deputy said.
The dog belonged to the man they were looking for, who was later detained on suspicion of resisting arrest, said Lt. Scott Haggard.
Around 6:45 p.m. deputies were responding to a call that the man had been "chasing people around" at the gas station on Gateway Road, Haggard said.
As deputies and a sheriff's department dog searched the nearby Bethel Island Golf Course for the man, the unchained pit bull charged them, Haggard said. Deputies shot it.
No one was bitten, Haggard said.
(Mercury News - Dec 27, 2011)
