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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Rhian Lubin

Police chief shot two Boston Terriers in front of the little kids who owned them. Now he’s suing their parents

An off-duty police chief shot two little Boston Terriers in front of a pair of young children whose dogs they were, leaving them traumatized — and now he is suing their parents for negligence, claiming he was the victim.

One of the compact pooches, Charlie, 1, was killed in the Oct. 6 incident, while the other, 3-year-old Dexter, was hospitalized with serious injuries and required expensive veterinary treatment, according to a GoFundMe appeal in support of the Michigan family they belonged to.

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