The officer is fine, suffering just an abrasion, Lt. Brian Stoney said. The dog was not injured; the officer’s bullet embedded into the asphalt.
However, the dog was taken in to be quarantined following the attack.
Stoney said the reservist was driving south on Harbison Avenue, a block or so south of El Cajon Boulevard, about 9:30 a.m. when he spotted a chair and a roll of carpet in the road in front of a home.
Looks like the homeowner had placed them out there indicating they were free to anyone who wanted them. He doesn't have a sidewalk or much of a driveway to leave there, but it doesn't appear that it's really impeding traffic. Likely someone would've picked it up within an hour or so.
He stopped to address the matter, and as he was talking to the resident, the dog came out of the home and started to behave aggressively.
After a short while, the pit bull “aggressively charged at the officer and bit him in the leg, kind of backed off and then bit him again,” Stoney said.
“He fired one shot [which missed the dog], right into the pavement,” Stoney said.
The dog ran back into the home. A short time later, the dog’s owner agreed to turn him over to animal control officials.
(San Diego Union Tribune - December 11, 2017)
