QUEEN CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — An East Valley family is awaiting justice in the death of their father after they say a confrontation over a missing dog escalated into a deadly assault. The attacker and pup are still on the loose.
“My dad loved that dog almost like me and my siblings. Like, that dog was always attached to his hip. He’s had him for 14 years,” said Miranda Hahn. That all changed on May 10 when her father, 55-year-old James Hahn, briefly left his dog, Jake, in the care of a man he worked with. According to the family, the dog went missing, and it caused an argument.
“My dad was always kind to this man, and this guy just turned on him,” said Miranda. The family says that James tried walking away from the confrontation, and that is when the man hit him in the back of the head with a walking stick.
“It was a straight shot to the back of the head, and it was pretty brutal,” said his son-in-law James Coursen. Family members say James Hahn was flown to the hospital with bleeding in his brain…