{"id":117678,"date":"2026-01-14T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117678\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:57:08","slug":"man-shot-killed-pit-bull-that-attacked-his-pomeranian-hillsborough-county-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117678\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot, Killed Pit Bull That Attacked His Pomeranian: Hillsborough County Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL \u2014 A man was arrested for shooting and killing a dog on the morning of Jan. 7, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Deputies responded to reports of a shooting in the 15300 block of Otto Road just after 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>They found Aaron Allen, 41, who admitted to shooting a 4-year-old pit bull in retaliation for attacking his dog, a 16-year-old Pomeranian, the day before, the sheriff\u2019s office said. <\/p>\n<p>Both dogs died from their injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Allen was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals with a weapon, armed trespassing, discharge of a firearm on residential property and shooting into a building. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cActs of violence against animals are unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our community,\u201d Sheriff Chad Chronister said. \u201cNo one has the right to take matters into their own hands in this way, and we will hold those responsible fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL \u2014 A man was arrested for shooting and killing a dog on the morning of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-117678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}