LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WFLA) — A South Florida household is mourning the lack of their 3-year-old Rottweiler who was killed in a hit-and-run crash Monday morning, in accordance with a report from NBC affiliate WBBH.
The alleged crash occurred when a van dashing down Zelda Avenue and Sundown Street in Lehigh Acres struck the household canine, Roxy.
The household advised WBBH that Roxy slipped out of their fenced yard with a Chihuahua earlier that morning.
Surveillance video from a close-by dwelling captured the van hitting the canine “with such pressure” that the neighbor heard the affect. The van reportedly by no means stopped.
“My abdomen dropped,” Brett Rosenberg, the resident who caught the second on video advised WBBH. “Sufficient is sufficient in Lehigh Acres.”
“I heard it from inside my home,” one other resident mentioned. “No doorways open or nothing. I heard the affect, it was unhealthy.”
Based on the report, the household needed to retrieve Roxy’s stays from the center of the street.
Roxy’s proprietor, Vicente Solia Peñaloza, advised the outlet they’d since beginning, and that the 3-year-old canine was the daughter of the opposite two Rottweilers he owned.
“I haven’t seen the video, and I don’t need to see it,” Peñaloza advised WBBH. “It’s simply an excessive amount of.”
The proprietor describes the sensation as overwhelming and that watching the surveillance video could be insufferable. Based on neighbors, the household has been in tears for the reason that crash.
“It was an animal this time,” he added. “God forbid, subsequent time, it might be a baby.”
WBBH mentioned the Lee County Sheriff’s Workplace’s Animal Cruelty unit is investigating the incident. Deputies are nonetheless looking for the motive force of the van and the automobile.
WFLA.com has reached out for added info.
