Bessler questions the bicyclist’s account, saying the dog was shot in the rear. “He has his story,” he told the Tribune. “I know my dog. I have my story.”
“I mean, it’s way too soon,” he told the paper. “I mean, it’s every time I see him everywhere that I go. Because he was, he was with me almost everywhere I went and he was always playing and he was always ... he always wanted to play and everybody loved him. Everybody could pet him.” Bessler said.
Bessler added jokingly, “nobody had problems with him unless they had a ball.”
In the old west this would have been taken care of. Not these days.
So the neighbor who witnessed the scene was lying? We’re to believe the owner who wasn’t there?