Christmas will now carry a lot of emotional weight for the Negrete family who is mourning the loss of a beloved husky that a Raleigh police officer fatally shot on Christmas Eve .
“He was such a playful dog. He was really sweet,” Lisbeth Negrete said.
According to police, the officer was responding to a report of a stolen vehicle in the neighborhood in the 3900 block of Alder Grove Lane in southeast Raleigh when they said an aggressive dog charged at an officer.
The officer attempted to back away, but the dog continued to advance, and the officer fired his service weapon, striking and killing the dog.
“This is not the result we wanted, especially during the holiday season,” a Raleigh Police spokesperson told ABC11.
According to the security camera video, you can see the patrol car’s arrival before it jumps to the scene when the officer and the dog are on the ground, and you can hear two gunshots in the video.
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