Cop Kills Unrelated Person's Dog During Pursuit

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Police officers chased a home invasion suspect on foot through a neighborhood, but also ended up shooting and killing a dog in its own back yard.

Police said the dog attacked an officer, but the dog's owner said that explanation is ridiculous.

"It's heartbreaking. It's killing me," said Michelle Damron, the dog's owner. "I just think shooting a dog and letting it suffer to its death because you're too scared to get bit was wrong -- especially when you came in his yard." [...]

"I got up to see what was going on because the dog was raising a fit, just barking, and I saw somebody else come as I was getting to the door, and as soon as I opened the door, I heard two gunshots," Damron said. "I looked over and my dog was hollering and there was blood everywhere, and he went inside of his dog house and eventually died."

"He went back in there crying and screaming and eventually died. He suffered," Damron continued. "They were chasing an armed robber and I guess he feared he was going to get bit. That dog wouldn't have bit."