GEORGIA -- A 61-year-old Winder man charged with shooting a dog his son adopted from an animal shelter was released from custody Tuesday on a $30,000 bond after he spent four nights in the Barrow County Jail.
Vernon Janise was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals and trespassing following an investigation into the Aug. 14 shooting in which Janise admitted shooting the dog in his back yard.
The suspect’s son had adopted the boxer-type dog named Cooper from the Barrow County Animal Control, according to a Barrow County Sheriff’s report.
Deputies were dispatched to Janise’s home on Stonegate Drive shortly before 5 p.m. when a woman reported she saw a man shoot the dog in his backyard with a shotgun. The woman said the man whistled for the dog and when it came toward a fence, the man fired the gun. A second woman also told deputies she saw him shoot the dog, then pick up a puppy by the neck and throw it over a fence.
The dog began yelping after it was hit and ran off into the neighborhood, deputies said. An animal control officer arrived and Janise told him he shot the dog because it was “marauding.” When questioned by the deputy, Janise admitted the dog belonged to his son and he didn’t want it living at his house anymore, according to the report.
When the son came home, he was “extremely upset,” deputies said.
(Online Athens - Aug 21, 2015)
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