A Philadelphia man is speaking out after he says he was shot for critiquing another man’s dog earlier this month.
“I’m like, ‘Yo, you shot me?'” recalled Darnell Henry.
Henry told Action News what happened leading up to the incident on the morning of November 3.
He says he was outside watching TV on the sidewalk near his home on West Oakdale Street in Strawberry Mansion.
Henry said his dog, Bella, walked up to 56-year-old Paul Sanders, who was walking his own dog at the time.
He said Sanders didn’t want the dog near him, and Henry mentioned the man’s dog looked skinny.
Minutes later, Henry said Sanders came back with 20-year-old Tanon Fitzpatrick, and he was shot. He believes it was because called Sanders’ dog skinny.
“I’m more angry than anything. Over a dog?” said Henry. “This is nothing else but talking about his dog. Feed your dog and walk away, and I get a bullet for that?”
After the shooting, police said Sanders and Fitzpatrick barricaded themselves inside a home on North 23rd Street.