Takoma Park woman seeks answers after neighbor shoots her dog – NBC4 Washington

Last month, a dog owner fell to the ground in Takoma Park and suffered a severe brain injury. When she regained consciousness, she discovered that her own dog had been shot.

“The last thing I remember before this all happened is walking out the door with the dogs, and the next thing I remember is sitting over there on the steps talking to a paramedic and looking at my dog ​​on the ground,” said Jordan Tucker, the owner of Peanut, an American Bully-Bulldog mix.

She was walking her pet and two other neighborhood dogs when the dogs started pulling away from her, causing her to fall.

A neighbor who called 911 claimed that Peanut was aggressive toward Tucker and shot the dog when Peanut attacked him and his wife.

His wife defended her husband to News4.

“Based on what my husband and I saw regarding the dog’s attack on the young lady, I can tell everyone that I feel my husband’s decision was the right one,” she said, asking to remain anonymous.

“My heartfelt apology is so sincere that I would like to hug them and tell them they did it out of caring,” she added.

She said her husband was a legal gun owner.

Tucker denies the allegations of assault and says she has no bite marks.

“It wasn’t a dog fight,” she said. “I wasn’t attacked. I was walking three dogs from my neighborhood that I really care about.”

Takoma Park police confirmed they heard a woman screaming and dogs barking during the 911 call. The case is currently under investigation.

“Once again, it happened very, very quickly – too soon for anyone, I think, to have made a really good decision before the shots were fired,” Tucker’s mother said.

No charges have been filed against the man who shot the dog, his wife told News4.

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