GA Deputy shoots pit bull mastiff mix while apprehending convicted felon

GEORGIA -- Ammo, a pit bull-mastiff mix is making a recovery after being shot point blank in the head by a Jones County deputy.

Sgt. David Little shot the 65-pound dog while on a call to arrest a man for a stolen car.

On September 22nd, Ammo's owner, Anna Peed, went to the Sheriff's Office to turn in her cousin, who brought the car to her home.

Her roommate, Kyle Sewall was at their Chapman Road house when the deputies arrived.

Sewall says Ammo was wagging her tail and sniffing around the car at the time the deputy got out of the car.

In a news release, Sgt. Little says the dog charged him, and he was "forced to make a split second decision" because his main focus was on arresting the suspect.

[Neither the news story nor the video mentions the gray dog that attacked the wounded pit/mastiff mix after it had been shot. So there were actually two dogs loose on the property when police arrived and found the suspect - a convicted felon with guns and knives allegedly in his possession - sitting in the stolen vehicle.]

An internal investigation by the Jones County Sheriff's Office found Little's actions were justified.

People online donated more than a thousand dollars online towards Ammo's medical costs.  Peed says it was initially unclear whether Ammo would survive.

 

Peed says she feels her family was punished for trying to do the right thing.

"I begged them not to shoot my dog and this is what you get paid for for doing the right thing," Peed says.

 

After having drainage tubes put in, those have now been taken out and Peed says Ammo is making an "amazing recovery."

(13wmaz - Oct 3, 2013)


(part of the police report):

THE STOLEN VEHICLE WAS BACKED IN NEXT TO THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HOUSE. I EXITED MY PATROL VEHICLE, DREW MY WEAPON AND ORDERED THE SUBJECT SITTING IN THE DRIVER SEAT TO PUT HIS HANDS UP. AS I STEPPED TOWARD THE VEHICLE A LARGE BULLDOG BREED DOG CHARGED AT ME. I FIRED ONE ROUND HITTING THE DOG TO PREVENT THE DOG FROM BITING ME. I THEN RETURNED MY FOCUS TO THE SUSPECT IN THE DRIVER SEAT. THE SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED AND HANDCUFFED BY DEPUTY SULLIVAN. HE WAS PLACED IN THE REAR OF THE PATROL VEHICLE.

AFTER I PUT THE DOG DOWN WITH ONE SHOT THE OTHER WHITE AND GRAY DOG ATTACKED THE WOUNDED DOG. THE WHITE AND GRAY DOG BIT THE WOUNDED DOG AROUND THE NECK AREA AND SHOOK THE DOG VIOLENTLY. THE HOME OWNER KYLE PULLED THE GRAY AND WHITE DOG OFF THE WOUNDED DOG. ANIMAL CONTROL WAS NOTIFIED TO COME AND PICK UP THE WOUNDED DOG. THE OWNER KYLE WANTED TO TAKE THE ANIMAL TO THE VET FOR TREATMENT. ANIMAL CONTROL LEFT THE DOG WITH THE OWNER.