A small city in Missouri will pay out $500,000 to the owner of a tiny blind and deaf dog who was shot dead by a police officer despite posing no threat.
Officials in Sturgeon, Missouri — population roughly 900, according to reports — were engulfed by outrage in May last year over the untimely end of a five-year-old Shih Tzu named Teddy. The incident led to the suspension of the cop who shot him, the resignation of the city's mayor, and even calls to disband the entire police force.
