On November 4, Patrol Task Force officers were conducting enforcement in the Target parking lot on East Main Street, a commercial area of town that receives frequent complaints related to vagrancy.
Around 7:50 a.m., the officers contacted individuals in a parked recreational vehicle (RV) and during the interaction, a dog, described as a Pitbull, immediately exited the vehicle and charged at an officer without warning. The officer tried to retreat, discharged his firearm twice at the dog, and fell backwards to the ground, sustaining minor injuries.
The dog’s owner was present during the encounter and was taken to a local hospital after sustaining a minor leg injury from a bullet fragment caused by a ricochet…