"He was everything to me," Andy Eury told NBC Charlotte.
They were best buds.
"Briggs, from day one, we just kind of hit it off."
Eury served two tours in Iraq and came home with PTSD.
"When you've got a 100 pound dog full of love on your lap, it will take your mind off anything."
His specially trained German Shepard went with him everywhere.
"He was my best friend, wasn't much different than a fellow marine."
But Monday night, Eury was waking to the grocery store across the street from his house when a car came flying around the curb.
"Never hit the brakes. Just swerved to get him off like he was a piece of trash. He didn't deserve that. He didn't deserve that."
Two Salisbury police officers put Andy and Briggs in their patrol car and got them to the nearest emergency clinic. That's where they found out Briggs' back was broken. Andy had to put down his dog.
"What do you do now? I'm lost. I really don't know what to do."
He wants to shut himself off from the world.
"But that would be eliminating everything Briggs has done for me so I gotta keep moving."
Paws 4 Soldiers, the group that helped bring Andy and Briggs together, is working to get Andy a new dog. If you'd like to help, you can find them at www.paws4soldiers.com.
Police tell us the driver, if found, will not face any criminal charges.
My town has a law that says that if you injure an animal in any way by accident you are required to call the police or the humane society -- someone -- to report the injured animal. It says that the person reporting it is not necessarily responsible financially (e.g. dog ran into the road and was struck by your car). But it's a civil, not criminal, violation.
(13newsnow.com - March 13, 2015)
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