STORM2K

This story breaks my heart. I know it's not a person, and I'm grateful no one lost their life, but I'm also a dog lover now. It would break my heart to watch someone just shoot my dog. Doesn't even sound like the dog was attacking.

Mary

http://www.cincynow.com/news/2005/local ... gshot.html

Robbers Shoot, Kill Dog During Holdup


Reported by: Shannon Kettler
Web produced by: Mark Sickmiller
Photographed by: 9News
First posted: 12/20/2005 11:56:01 AM
Last updated: 12/20/2005 1:30:02 PM

Police are looking for two armed robbers who shot a store owner's dog during a robbery Monday night.

It happened around 10 p.m. at Wrigley's Market on Findlay Street in Over-The-Rhine.

Surveillance video shows the pair during the robbery.

The 52-year-old owner watched as one of the robbers shot her ten-year-old Akita, named Salam, in the neck.

The young suspects got some cash and took off running.

Salem was paralyzed and the owner had to put him to sleep.

Channel 9's Shannon Kettler will have an update on this story, including an interview with the store owner, on 9News starting at 5 p.m. Stay with WCPO.com and WCPO-TV for updates. Please click "refresh" on your browser to view the most recent version of this story.

If you have any information about this crime, please call Crimestoppers at (513) 352-3040. You don't have to give your name and you may be eligible for a reward if your tips lead to an arrest.

I have some choice words for those robbers!!!

But this being a family oriented site, well...

Eric

Skywatch_NC wrote:I have some choice words for those robbers!!!

But this being a family oriented site, well...

Eric

Same here

I hope those robbers are punished to the fullest extent of the law. If there are additional charges that can be made in court against the robbers because of what they did to the dog, then the charges should be brought.

Even if the dog attacked them, they had NO RIGHT to harm so much as 1 hair on that dog's body. When people commit crimes, they have no claim of self defense whatsoever and anyone (human or animal) they kill or harm during the commission of the crime should be grounds for additonal charges, and additional punishment, CONSECUTIVE, to the initial crime committed.

That is just awful!!!!!!! I am a animal lover too and that makes me sick!!!!!!!!

LaPlaceFF wrote:

Skywatch_NC wrote:I have some choice words for those robbers!!!

But this being a family oriented site, well...

Eric

Same here

I second that.

Believe you me, I had to tame down my topic title. I wanted to type so much more.

That poor dog! And the owner, to have to stand there and watch this senseless shooting.



Mary

More on the story. A stray bullet was found and was possibly intended for the other dog.

http://www.cincynow.com/news/2005/local ... gshot.html

This story makes me so upset. Click on the link for a picture of the dog that died.

Mary

I cant look at it!!!!!!!!

I looked

Well, for what it's worth, the picture is of the dog who died, long before this shooting. So there's nothing upsetting to see, but just knowing that poor dog was shot senselessly, is what saddens me.

Mary

Poor dog. I lost my dog shortly after I returned to the area after Hurricane Rita. She was out playing with her neighborhood dog friends for a bit (she stayed inside most of the time) when some idiot was FLYING down the road and ran over her. It's a residential area and could have been a kid. Dogs and kids are always out playing on this "no outlet" street outside the city limits. He was speeding excessively. She died October 18th.


As to the robber, lock him up forever. If we had tougher laws, maybe we'd have less crime. What kind of warped mentality leads a person to believe that they deserve to take something from someone else, that they haven't worked for, but someone else did? Pathetic humans.