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You just shot me,” Hight screams. “I shot who?” the deputy asked. Williams appeared to aim at a Pomeranian, but instead hit Hight who is standing right next to another deputy. You shot my aunt,” said another woman. “I didn't shoot her,” Williams responds. Yes, you did," Hight responds. "You shot me." Later in the video, Williams claims one of Hight’s dogs scratched her - instead of her being shot.

The head of Philadelphia's FBI field office is facing an investigation after she shot and killed a pit bull outside a Center City apartment building Monday evening. The shooting of a pit bull by an off-duty FBI agent on a busy Center City street this week has sparked an uproar on social media and protests by animal rights activists outside the FBI’s offices on Arch Street. Here’s what we know about the incident, the agent involved, and what happens next: What do we know about the incident? Philadelphia police and the FBI have confirmed that an off-duty FBI agent shot...

A desperately sad video showing a woman's despair after her pet pit bull was shot dead has started trending on YouTube.In the video, titled 'My dad killed a pitbull with his glock. Please like plus subscribe', the woman wails, 'That is my baby! That is my baby!' as a man tries to stop her entering the home.From off-camera comes a gaggle of male voices, one of whom says: 'I had to, he came in the house, he came after me, I'm sorry.The man who shot the dog also apologizes, and says that 'the dog came at me,' while a defiant...

CANTON, Ohio - A Canton Police K-9 and a suspect were shot and injured early Saturday morning while responding to an active burglary call, police said. According to police, officers, along with 3-year-old K-9 Jethro, responded to the burglary call just after 1 a.m. at the Fisher Foods, on 1272 Harrison Ave. SW, when the suspect confronted Jethro inside the store.

Dayton woman left bloodied after pit bull attack By Matt Natali @ May 3, 2010 4:17 PM Permalink | Comments (0) DAYTON, Ohio -- A pit bull bit and injured a woman in the back yard of her Fernwood Avenue home on Monday after several dogs started fighting. The incident occurred around noon at 129 Fernwood Ave. as the woman was trying to call her two pit bulls inside her home, according to Sgt. Bill Keller. The woman, who is believed to be at least 40, was trying to get her dogs inside because she noticed two other pit bulls...

LITHONIA, Ga. -- An 8-year-old girl was attacked by two Staffordshire bull terriers in Lithonia Tuesday afternoon, DeKalb County police said.The attack happened while the girl was playing in the yard of her home on Margaret Court.CBS Atlanta spoke to the girl’s father on the phone Tuesday night. He identified her as Erin Ingram. He choked back tears as he said his daughter wasn’t doing well.“I think that this is horrible, horrible,” said neighbor Veronica Cook.Cook and her son Kahlil Smoot couldn't believe Ingram was viciously attacked by two neighborhood dogs.“She's a sweet little girl,” said Smoot.Police say Ingram was...

Vancouver pit bull attack has owner, humane society at odds by Susan Harding, KATU News and KATU.com Staff Originally printed at http://www.katu.com/news/84926487.html VANCOUVER, Wash. – Bob McDonald never saw it coming. Parked at the Langsdorf Landing boat launch in Southwest Washington, with the windows down and his basset hound Freckles in the passenger seat, "all of a sudden I heard this screaming sound, and out of nowhere came this Pit Bull." McDonald said he tried to free the dog on this own: "I was trying to hold onto her with one hand and hit the Pit Bull with the other."...

Owner Shoots, Kills Dog After It Attacks Girl Girl Receives 38 Stitches From Dog AttackPOSTED: 11:40 am EDT September 8, 2005 DETROIT -- An owner was apparently forced to shoot her dog after it attacked a 7-year-old girl in her Detroit neighborhood, Local 4 reported. Lajoy Morgan said her daughter, Rebecca, was playing in the back yard of a neighbors house when the dog jumped a fence and lunged at her. "When I seen my child, it's just blood running everywhere, from her legs, from her chest, from her side," said Morgan. Morgan said the owner of the dog was...