TAMPA \u2014 A man was arrested last week after admitting he shot and killed a dog in retaliation for an attack on his own pet, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded to the 15300 block of Otto Road around 8:10 a.m. Jan. 7 after a reported shooting, according to the sheriff’s office. Aaron Allen, 41, told deputies he shot a 4-year-old pit bull after it attacked his 16-year-old Pomeranian the day before. Both dogs died from their injuries, deputies said.<\/p>\n
Allen was charged with aggravated cruelty to animals with a weapon, armed trespassing, discharging a firearm on residential property and shooting into a building, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 A man was arrested last week after admitting he shot and killed a dog in retaliation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9189,276,48035,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-121133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-crimes","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121133","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=121133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}