Photo: C.mont, also known as Monster, an 8-month-old pit bull shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer Thursday evening in a West Side alley. (Family photo)CHICAGO, IL - An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and wounded a pit bull after it and another dog growled and advanced on him as he was getting out of his car Thursday night on the Near West Side, police said. (So far so good...I am surprised Pat Camden didn't make an in person appearance for this police shooting)
The dogs' owner and his family said the dog that was shot about 8:20 p.m. and its sire were able to get out of the yard by pushing on the gate of the family yard in 700 block of South Claremont by the owner's grandson. The officer is a longtime neighbor of the owner's family.
The officer told investigators he was getting out of his car when the two dogs came up and growled at him, said Chicago Police Officer John Mirabelli, a police spokesman. The officer retreated, but the growling continued and the dogs advanced on him, said Mirabelli, citing preliminary reports. (The dogs also asked the officer for all his money and his car)
The officer drew his gun and shot one of the dogs, Mirabelli said. Animal Care and Control was called to the scene, but the owner and his daughter said the wounded dog, an 8-month-old named C.Mont and known as Monster, was taken to a private animal hospital where it was euthanized after being shot in the jaw and leg. (Does private animal hospitals take the welfare medicade card?)
The owner, Felipe Rodriguez,(A fine illegal beaner living in the Sanctuary City of Chicago) said he was in his house when the shooting happened, but said that the dogs--Monster and his father--"were not trained to fight." (Dogs do NOT need to be trained to BITE)
Rodriguez's daughter Maria Rodriguez said her nephew (Because they have about 50 different family members living in this house) had gone to her house for dinner, walking from where he lives with his grandfather on the same block, and the younger dog had apparently pushed open the gate to the back yard. The younger dog got out first, and her nephew told her that Monster was not threatening the officer, Maria Rodriguez said. (BULLSHIT...They didn't witness this but they know what dog left first)
It did not appear that the other dog, Weezy, left the yard until after he heard Monster crying, Maria Rodriguez said. (Again.. when a person says "it appears" it means they think this is what happened they didn't witness it)
Zonia Borda, who lives across the alley from the Rodriguez family, said that she did not hear the dogs barking before she heard shots Thursday night. She said she looked out to see the officer standing near his back gate, and saw a dog that had been shot and was running toward Felipe Rodriguez's back gate, crying. (I am surprised she didn't say the dogs had their paws up in the air and were unarmed when the officer executed them)
"I've been around those dogs--they are around children," and are not dangerous, Borda said. (Sounds like Borda may have been doing a lot of things with these dogs and peanut butter)
Felipe Rodriguez was issued citations for having an unrestrained dog, a dog without a license and lacking proof of rabies vaccinations. He was due to appear at a city administrative hearing on Nov. 18, Mirabelli said. (It is not his fault, the city only offers free shots and tags once a year to illegal beaners)
Because the officer shot his weapon, the city's Independent Police Review Authority is investigating. (He will be brought up on murder charges in the near future to appease the illegal beaner Hispanic community)
