Dog on leash shot and killed by York deputy
YORK COUNTY, SC Alice Renee McGlone says her cats Rhett Butler and Tara will have to go on without Scarlett her 9-year-old Labrador retriever after a York County Sheriffs Office deputy shot and killed the dog when, he says, it charged him aggressively on Tuesday.
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But, sheriffs officials say the deputy had no choice but to protect himself from the dog.
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On Tuesday, two deputies went to McGlones house just before 4 p.m. after McGlones daughter called police to say she hadnt heard from her mother since Feb. 26. McGlone had been sick, she explained, and her phone was dead on Sunday night when her daughter in Virginia tried to call.
When deputies arrived for a routine welfare check, no one was home. There were no cars in the driveway and deputies noticed a broken window screen, pulled away from a window on the side of McGlones house.
They tried knocking on McGlones front door first but got no response, according to a sheriffs office report.
As one deputy, Jonathan Reed, knocked on a window at the rear of McGlones house, he saw her dog charging and snarling with bared teeth, with its head lowered, the report states.
As Reed retreated, he saw that the dog was on a leash, he wrote in the report. However, I saw that the leash was long enough to allow the dog to reach me before I could get away.
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