Three dogs seized from a Tarrant County property near Eagle Mountain Lake on suspicion of killing an 82-year-old man working in his yard have been returned to their owner following a hearing before a justice of the peace Friday.
“There’s not enough (evidence) to deem these dogs dangerous,” Judge Christopher Gregory said at the end of the two-hour hearing, which included testimony from one of the victim’s neighbors.
The dogs — a brown pit bull terrier, a black Shepherd mix and a white Shepherd/Shiba Inu mix — have been in the custody of Fort Worth Animal Control since June 17, the day after Ronald Anderson was found dead inside his home. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Anderson’s death an accident caused by “canine mauling.”…