{"id":27010,"date":"2025-09-17T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27010\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:17:07","slug":"danny-livingstone-shoots-dog-in-hamilton-supermarket-carpark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/27010\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Livingstone shoots dog in Hamilton supermarket carpark"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Belinda Feek, Open Justice reporter of \"NZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pak'nSave<\/p>\n

\nPak’nSave Clarence St in Hamilton.
\nPhoto: Belinda Feek\/Open Justice\n<\/p>\n

A man shot a dog in the head and its owner’s partner in the arm with an air pistol, after taking exception to the canine barking at him in a Hamilton supermarket carpark.<\/p>\n

Despite Danny Patrick Livingstone firing his air pistol several times, Brownie and her owner were able to escape without any serious injury.<\/p>\n

Livingstone had the pistol stashed down his pants, while in the Pak’nSave Clarence Street supermarket earlier this year. He shot the dog, as she sat next to a nine-year-old boy in a car.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old has appeared in the Hamilton District Court for sentencing on charges of cruelty to an animal and assaulting a person using a firearm. Both charges carry a maximum prison sentence of five years.<\/p>\n

‘Barked in distress’<\/p>\n

At 11.45am on 4 May, Livingstone walked past the victim’s car, parked at Pak’nSave Clarence Street.<\/p>\n

Brownie was in the vehicle, sitting next to the window, with the owner’s nine-year-old son, and barked at Livingstone as he walked past.<\/p>\n

Livingstone pulled out a blue and clear air pistol from his pants, and shot Brownie in the head, causing her to bark in distress.<\/p>\n

He was then confronted by the owner and her partner as to why he’d shot the dog, and they had a “heated argument”.<\/p>\n

Livingstone got out his air pistol again and shot the partner twice in his right arm.<\/p>\n

He then ran off on foot toward Grantham Street, where he was arrested.<\/p>\n

When police searched his backpack, they found the air pistol, along with a stash of copper-coated pellets.<\/p>\n

Neither the victim nor Brownie suffered any injuries from the shots. Livingstone declined to comment at the time.<\/p>\n

He appeared before Judge Noel Cocurullo for sentencing, after earlier accepting a sentence indication.<\/p>\n

The judge took a starting point of 10 months’ jail and added a five percent uplift for his history, then took off 20 percent for his guilty plea. That resulted in an end jail term of eight months.<\/p>\n

However, the judge noted he would soon be released, as he had effectively served his time.<\/p>\n

* This story originally appeared in the New Zealand Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Belinda Feek, Open Justice reporter of Pak’nSave Clarence St in Hamilton. Photo: Belinda Feek\/Open Justice A man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-27010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}