Incident Tone Deaf Abused and Bline Non-Aggressive 13 Pound Dog Brutally Shot by Police Officer in the State of Missouri Shown Killed on Video Surveillance Footage as D.A. Defends Officer for Injuring Animal

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024, 8:53 PM reporting from Friday May 25th, 2024, 1:00 PM-Sturgeon Wisconsin- shocking details of video surveillance evidence of images revealed the acknowledge incident taken from a law enforcement deputy that demonstrated the scene an officer discharged gunfire on a peace-loving deaf and blind 13-pound dog and killed it.

Domestic animal abuse unit filed a formal complaint in a formal report since Tuesday morning, a Sturgeon Police Department deputy responded in a statement to the documentation memo of the lost dog killed.

The owner is identified as 35-year-old Nick Hunter virtually identified, reported his fluffy, 13-lbs white Shih Tzu mix lost. What's deeply troublesome is for the master, is the 5-year-old dog had been disabled. The owner clarified informed police the dog was docile and "not at all" hostile.

Sturgeon Sheriff's Department Office Myron Woodson detailed the context of his comment submitted to the missing dog report. Momentarily as hour passed with hopeless effort to find the missing disabled dog returned back to its owner, it was corresponded that Deputy Woodson negligibly discharged two shots into the 13-year-old dog.

The Shih Tuz has been spotted by Deputy Woodson and seen caught according to body cam surveillance footage despite accidentally shooting the dog, after slowing approaching the aggressive dog, and he shot it up armed with several round of casing shell rounds.

The body cam footage released the image of the dog identified as Teddy and noticed earnestly strolling around. The deputy is witnessed to whip and strap the distraught dog, but he accomplished his intentions. The animal resumes playful rolling the area during random occasions in the grassy field.

The dog is seen also on video cam footage playing with a vine on a branch on a tree. Uncaught explicably from anywhere unseen, the dog a few minutes afterwards was confronted by the officer without the dog being antagonized toward the policeman.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the officer is seen shooting the dog only three minutes after encountering the small dog without the animal being aggressive toward the cop.

Police bodycam video shows the officer shooting the dog at the 5:35 mark and firing another shot at the 5:41 mark.

Bodycam footage shows the officer walking back to his cruiser to retrieve a bin, returning back to the scene of the death, and putting the lifeless body of the dog into the receptacle. He places the disposed container with the deceased animal in the back of his patrol vehicle.

The owner of the slain dog – a very distraught Nick Hunter – is seen confronting the police officer before he can drive away. According to the video, he is recording the officer as he questions him.

Hunter tells the officer that his dog was "completely blind and completely deaf."

Officer Woodson attempts to defend his fatal actions by saying that he saw a "dog walking around blindly," and he only can respond to situations with "information at hand" and claimed he had spent 10 minutes dealing with a dog that was "walking around blindly."

Woodson claims that he doesn't "enjoy shooting dogs."

"I'm not happy that I had to shoot a dog," Woodson says on video.

Hunter informs the officer that there are numerous non-lethal alternatives to making a dog respond.

Woodson states, "I'm sorry I had to do it. That's all I'm saying."

Hunter declares, "I can handle a dog dying if the dog was put down for a proper reason."

He adds, "He was not aggressive to a person, and not a harm to anyone."

Hunter accuses the officer of not attempting "to do anything properly besides lethal force."

The dog owner claims the dog escaped from its kennel after its collar slipped off.

The city of Sturgeon defended Officer Woodson's fatal actions with a statement that reads:

The city has reviewed the dispatch report and body camera footage regarding the recent dog at large incident. The city believes that the officer acted within his authority based on the information available to him at the time to protect against possible injury to citizens from what appeared to be an injured, sick, and abandoned dog. The dispatch indicated that the person calling in did not want to be contacted, and had reported that the dog, though not in her view dangerous, was injured, maybe blind, and had mud and dried blood in its fur. The dog’s awkward behavior appeared consistent with the dispatch report of an injured or possibly sick dog. In order to better equip officers for future animal at large call outs, the city will be sending all officers to Boone County Animal Control for training and education, in hopes that this unfortunate situation does not occur again. Hunter told KMIZ in the transcript, "I filed a complaint formally with the city of Sturgeon and requested to speak with the mayor. The mayor did not contact me, instead posted a statement contradicting everything that me and the officer spoke of, saying the officer's fear was Teddy having rabies."

Hunter proclaimed that his dog was updated on its rabies vaccines.

"The officer was going strictly based off the fact that the dog walks with his head sideways due to him being deaf and blind," Hunter alleged.

He added, "I'm hoping these officers and future officers can find a way to follow the fourth continuum, our levels, correctly versus going straight to lethal force. That should always be a last resort in dealing with any life."

Hunter corresponded to the press that his priority is on making a formal lawsuit against the city of Sturgeon over the shooting death of his dog.