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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A Miami Gardens household is distraught aft they accidental a Miami Gardens constabulary serviceman fatally changeable their dog.
Surveillance video shows the 1 1/2-year-old Rottweiler named Zeus bounding toward the serviceman Saturday, who, successful seconds, appears to sprout the canine respective times.
The canine past rolls connected the writer and runs backmost home. But Zeus would not survive.
His owners, Nestor Cintra and family, are near heartbroken.
“The champion canine ever. He was playful. He was a bully dog,” Nestor’s daughter, Sarielis Cintra, said.
“Today is the archetypal time I’ve been capable to devour anything,” Nestor told Local 10 News successful Spanish.
The shooting happened Saturday successful a vicinity northbound of Miami Gardens Drive.
Nestor said helium called constabulary to analyse vandals breaking car windows, but aft the serviceman was penning his report, Zeus busted done the closed, but unlocked backmost gate.
Zeus was past changeable by the officer.
Local 10 News has reached retired to the Miami Gardens Police Department for comment, but had not heard backmost astatine the clip of publishing.
In general, constabulary officers tin discharge their weapons if there’s an imminent threat.
But the household insists Zeus was not aggressive.
“It’s precise bittersweet -- I don’t cognize what to say,” Nestor said. “They killed my dog.”
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Janine Stanwood
Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News successful February 2004 arsenic an duty editor. She is present a wide duty reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the elder legislative analogous for a United States legislator connected Capitol Hill.
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