EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, wants answers about an incident in which a Border Patrol agent allegedly shot and killed a family’s pet dog at their El Paso home earlier this year.
The incident happened on Sept. 9, when Border Patrol agents reportedly shot and killed a family’s 7-year-old rottweiler.
As KTSM has previously reported, the homeowner said he was fully cooperating with agents and was “not doing anything wrong.”
The homeowner, through his attorney, told KTSM that he had secured the dog in a bathroom, but one agent entered the house, opened the bathroom door and shot the dog, named Chop…