Janneth Sanchez, 27, said the shooting happening about 9:35 p.m. Sunday, when she called police for help getting into her house, at 5029 Magnasco Lane.
Keith Trietley, a spokesman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, said he couldn’t comment on the case, other than to say the internal affairs department is investigating because “an officer discharged a firearm.”
Sanchez had fought with her husband and stormed out for the weekend, but came back Sunday night to try to work things out with husband, Henry.
At first Henry [the loving husband] wouldn't let her in the door, so she called 911 for help. That brought a CMPD officer to the house. Henry finally unlocked the door then a latch which helps keep Chino and their other pit bull, Ivy, inside.
The door opened, Sanchez said, and her two pit bulls, Chino and Ivy, ran out.
She said she was bending down to [grab] Chino when an officer yelled at her to restrain him and then fired his gun at Chino.
“By the time he said, ‘Grab your dogs,’ it was too late; he had already shot my dog,” Sanchez said.
Ivy ran away. She was later found with what appeared to be a bullet wound near her mouth.
Sanchez said neither of the dogs had been growling, barking or acting viciously. Sanchez said the event left her shaken, especially because she is seven months’ pregnant and was standing near the dog when he was shot.
(Winston-Salem Journal - Dec 18, 2012)
