Cop kills pit bull with AR-15 during kid’s birthday party
- 8 years ago
WYNNEWOOD, OKLAHOMA — A child’s pet pit bull was shot to death after police say the canine “viciously attacked” an officer investigating an old warrant.
According to Fox 25, Eli Malone was celebrating his fifth birthday with friends and family at his Wynnewood, Oklahoma home recently when an unnamed officer came to the house.
That officer was serving a warrant at the Malone’s address when police say Opie, Eli’s pet dog — a pit bull, American bulldog mix — lunged at him through the fence. However, the warrant the officer was investigating was from ten years ago, and for a person that no longer lives at the Malone’s address.
The cops claim the dog attacked the officer after it came running around the corner of the house. Police say the officer tried to kick the dog off him before shooting him. But the Malones say that doesn’t line up with footage captured after the shooting of a barely alive Opie near the gate inside the enclosure.
“The gates to our yard are tied with wire and shoe string. The dog could maybe have gotten his head through the fence but he wouldn't have been able to open it”, Eli’s mother Vickie Malone, told the New York Daily News.
Next, the officer reportedly got an AR-15 from his car and fired two shots into Opie, putting the canine out of his misery.
According to Fox 25, Eli Malone was celebrating his fifth birthday with friends and family at his Wynnewood, Oklahoma home recently when an unnamed officer came to the house.
That officer was serving a warrant at the Malone’s address when police say Opie, Eli’s pet dog — a pit bull, American bulldog mix — lunged at him through the fence. However, the warrant the officer was investigating was from ten years ago, and for a person that no longer lives at the Malone’s address.
The cops claim the dog attacked the officer after it came running around the corner of the house. Police say the officer tried to kick the dog off him before shooting him. But the Malones say that doesn’t line up with footage captured after the shooting of a barely alive Opie near the gate inside the enclosure.
“The gates to our yard are tied with wire and shoe string. The dog could maybe have gotten his head through the fence but he wouldn't have been able to open it”, Eli’s mother Vickie Malone, told the New York Daily News.
Next, the officer reportedly got an AR-15 from his car and fired two shots into Opie, putting the canine out of his misery.