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Police Respond To Alarm At Wrong House, Kill Dog
Police Apparently Entered Wrong Yard
POSTED: 11:48 am PDT June 28, 2004
UPDATED: 11:58 am PDT June 28, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Police officers responding to a homeowner alarm entered the wrong yard and shot to death a threatening Rottweiler.
Austin was shot five times by the officers, who were responding to a silent panic alarm, while owner Peter Vanderford was away.
A child in the Hendrick Court house next door mistakenly set off the alarm in his mother's purse.
"It's just tragic. It's sad that the officers just assumed everything," Vanderford said.
Lt. John Acosta said one of the responding officers went to Vanderford's house, thinking he heard that address over the radio.
The officers went into the back yard, were confronted by the Rottweiler and they fired five rounds at the dog.
"Having no time to react, he didn't have time to retrieve the pepper spray, he felt the dog was rather large and too close, the officers reacted with their firearms," the lieutenant said.
The officers, whose names were withheld, searched the house and after finding no suspects went outside and realized the house they were supposed to be at was next door.
"To some people it's like family, it's like their kid, and we have to look at it that way," the lieutenant said, adding police were investigating Friday's incident.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3469261/detail.html
Police Respond To Alarm At Wrong House, Kill Dog
Police Apparently Entered Wrong Yard
POSTED: 11:48 am PDT June 28, 2004
UPDATED: 11:58 am PDT June 28, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Police officers responding to a homeowner alarm entered the wrong yard and shot to death a threatening Rottweiler.
Austin was shot five times by the officers, who were responding to a silent panic alarm, while owner Peter Vanderford was away.
A child in the Hendrick Court house next door mistakenly set off the alarm in his mother's purse.
"It's just tragic. It's sad that the officers just assumed everything," Vanderford said.
Lt. John Acosta said one of the responding officers went to Vanderford's house, thinking he heard that address over the radio.
The officers went into the back yard, were confronted by the Rottweiler and they fired five rounds at the dog.
"Having no time to react, he didn't have time to retrieve the pepper spray, he felt the dog was rather large and too close, the officers reacted with their firearms," the lieutenant said.
The officers, whose names were withheld, searched the house and after finding no suspects went outside and realized the house they were supposed to be at was next door.
"To some people it's like family, it's like their kid, and we have to look at it that way," the lieutenant said, adding police were investigating Friday's incident.