FORT PIERCE \u2013 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office is actively investigating an incident involving the shooting of a dog at Indian River Estates in the 5900 block of Palm Drive in Fort Pierce on Sept. 6<\/p>\n
When a woman arrived home and pulled into her driveway, two dogs approached her car and prevented her from safely exiting, according to a sheriff\u2019s office Facebook posting. She contacted her husband for assistance.<\/p>\n
The husband came outside and saw the dogs before returning inside the residence to get a handgun. When he came back outside, one of the dogs charged toward him in an aggressive manner, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
As the dog approached and before he was bitten, the man fired his handgun, striking one of the dogs, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Following the shooting, both dogs fled to a nearby residence on Myrtle Drive, where they reside, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Investigators are reviewing surveillance footage and conducting interviews with independent witnesses and gathering additional information to establish the complete circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
At this time, the investigation remains active, and no further conclusions will be drawn until all available evidence has been reviewed.<\/p>\n
The owner transported the injured dog to an emergency animal hospital for treatment, according to the Facebook posting. The dog\u2019s condition is not currently available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 The St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office is actively investigating an incident involving the shooting of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-393001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393001","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=393001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}