Sorry about the dog
Via Robert Douglas, we have another victim of police getting the address wrong. This time, it was the family pet:
A responding officer went to Vanderford’s house, thinking he heard that address over the radio instead of Vanderford’s neighbor, Acosta said.
The two officers saw a garage door open in the back yard and an alarm placard on the house and assumed they had the right house, Acosta said. When they went around the back of the house, the dog came out of the garage and was 5 feet away when the first officer fired his weapon.
“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,” he said
