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06-10-2008, 08:48 PM
:(http://www.local12.com/media/news/f/8/5/f854a857-9979-4024-a57b-60fe313e482a/Story.jpg Pit Bulls Killed
Local 12 has learned a Cincinnati Ohio landlord, who killed two pit bulls Sunday morning, will not be prosecuted. :confused:
It comes down to a call about "self defense".
In this developing story alert, Rich Jaffe finds police believe, even though one of the dogs was in a cage, Charles Sanders was protecting himself when he opened fire.
This morning, Dominic Thomas walked his pit bull, Tasha, right past the Harrison Avenue location where, yesterday morning, a landlord shot and killed two pit bulls.
Dominic Thomas, Pit Bull Owner: "A lot of people say they vicious and all that, but they ain't really like that for real..."
The six month old dog was shot first on the front porch of the home. The second dog, an adult, was in this cage when property owner Charles Sanders opened fire.
Rich Jaffe: "According to this police report, the situation began Sunday morning about ten o'clock when the woman who lives upstairs, Shana Stinson, came downstairs to take her garbage out. She told police she was chased around the house by a pit bull, belonging to the man who lives downstairs. She says that dog even chased her back into her own apartment, where she locked the door, and called for help."
Sgt Danita Kilgore, Cincinnati Police: "The landlord arrives on the scene, walking up the steps to the residence, one dog comes from the side of the porch, charges the landlord owner, who at that point, pulls out a firearm and shoots the dog."
The landlord tells police that even though the adult dog was in this cage, he was throwing himself against the cage so violently, Sanders was afraid it was going to get out and attack him.
"So, in his own defense, he fires two shots at the dog that's in the cage, turns around and the initial dog he had fired shots at, which was only wounded is now back at the scene and beginning to become aggressive again, he fires some additional shots at that dog..."
Police say Charles Sanders then turned to the dog in the cage and fired a final killing shot...Rich Jaffe, Local 12.
Police say a total of nine shots were fired at the dogs. The dog's owner, a man named Sanchez, didn't want to talk on camera, but tells us his dogs were not dangerous. He says his landlord had recently told him to get rid of one of the dogs, and he was planning to do so.
...(guess he doesn't have to now)
another person i guess :confused: who feared for their life....:(
Local 12 has learned a Cincinnati Ohio landlord, who killed two pit bulls Sunday morning, will not be prosecuted. :confused:
It comes down to a call about "self defense".
In this developing story alert, Rich Jaffe finds police believe, even though one of the dogs was in a cage, Charles Sanders was protecting himself when he opened fire.
This morning, Dominic Thomas walked his pit bull, Tasha, right past the Harrison Avenue location where, yesterday morning, a landlord shot and killed two pit bulls.
Dominic Thomas, Pit Bull Owner: "A lot of people say they vicious and all that, but they ain't really like that for real..."
The six month old dog was shot first on the front porch of the home. The second dog, an adult, was in this cage when property owner Charles Sanders opened fire.
Rich Jaffe: "According to this police report, the situation began Sunday morning about ten o'clock when the woman who lives upstairs, Shana Stinson, came downstairs to take her garbage out. She told police she was chased around the house by a pit bull, belonging to the man who lives downstairs. She says that dog even chased her back into her own apartment, where she locked the door, and called for help."
Sgt Danita Kilgore, Cincinnati Police: "The landlord arrives on the scene, walking up the steps to the residence, one dog comes from the side of the porch, charges the landlord owner, who at that point, pulls out a firearm and shoots the dog."
The landlord tells police that even though the adult dog was in this cage, he was throwing himself against the cage so violently, Sanders was afraid it was going to get out and attack him.
"So, in his own defense, he fires two shots at the dog that's in the cage, turns around and the initial dog he had fired shots at, which was only wounded is now back at the scene and beginning to become aggressive again, he fires some additional shots at that dog..."
Police say Charles Sanders then turned to the dog in the cage and fired a final killing shot...Rich Jaffe, Local 12.
Police say a total of nine shots were fired at the dogs. The dog's owner, a man named Sanchez, didn't want to talk on camera, but tells us his dogs were not dangerous. He says his landlord had recently told him to get rid of one of the dogs, and he was planning to do so.
...(guess he doesn't have to now)
another person i guess :confused: who feared for their life....:(