SUMMERDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — This is Picasso. “He’s only a year and a half old. He loves to swim, loves to play fetch,” but all that will have to wait for now, as he recovers from three gunshot wounds. “Once through each shoulder and through the front left leg.”
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One night, almost two weeks ago, Allison Petracca was letting her dogs out of her Summerdale house. “They were here in my neighbor’s driveway, all four of my dogs were out. I heard the shots, and I came around the back side of the house, and then that’s when I seen the dogs. I never heard them bark, and I never heard any commotion outside. I just heard the shots.”
Picasso the Pit Bull was wounded. Another dog, a mixed breed named America, was killed. A bullet also hit Petracca’s A/C unit. “So we haven’t had air for two weeks,” she said.
The neighbor, who is a Baldwin County Sheriff’s deputy and was off duty at the time, called Summerdale Police and his shift supervisor to report the incident.
According to Summerdale Police Chief Michael Gaull, the deputy reported his family had just arrived home and “as he was walking outside to check on his family, a Pitbull ran towards him growling,” and that he “discharged his weapon to keep from being attacked.”…