APOLLO BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A pet proprietor is not going to be charged after taking pictures and killing a canine at an Apollo Seaside canine park Monday afternoon, based on the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace.
The sheriff’s workplace mentioned dispatchers acquired a name a few taking pictures on the canine park, situated off of Gulf And Sea Boulevard, round 5:56 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6.
Witnesses informed authorities that two canine, a golden doodle and a Pitbull, had been preventing when the proprietor of the doodle shot the Pitbull. The canine died from its accidents.
“He began making an attempt to drag away his canine and different woman as a result of she wasn’t proper subsequent to her canine, she ran over and began to attempt to pull him away. I heard him scream that he was going to shoot her canine, then he fairly promptly took out a gun and shot it within the head,” a witness who was on the canine park when the taking pictures occurred mentioned. The witness didn’t need to be recognized.
HCSO mentioned the shooter was not charged, and offered the next assertion:
“The legislation permits canine house owners to take essential actions to guard their pets and themselves in these conditions. Their canine was being attacked, and the proprietor couldn’t regain management of their animal. The canine attacking the opposite canine posed a direct menace to their pet and probably different folks on the park.”
“Florida legislation means that you can use lethal power with a firearm to defend your canine,” mentioned Tampa Lawyer Anthony Rickman. “Though it’s tragic a canine was killed, the proprietor who shot that canine was justified in utilizing the lethal power as a result of that canine can flip its ire on the individual making an attempt to separate the canine. He may wind up getting bit and even killed himself. So the legislation permits you, in case you have that affordable perception, this passable perception, to defend your animal. “
Florida legislation additionally permits weapons in public parks.
“Florida legislation doesn’t prohibit any individual from bringing a firearm, so long as they will lawfully carry one, to a public park,” Rickman mentioned. “Until it’s particularly prohibited at that park.”
Witnesses and different canine house owners had been shocked to seek out there aren’t any indicators prohibiting weapons on the Apollo Seaside canine park.
“You need to see folks take the least violent measures doable and make it possible for each animals are secure, and all of the folks concerned are secure too,” the witness to the taking pictures mentioned. “There’s a lot that may go incorrect if you shoot a gun.”
