[excholza]

Family claims neighbor shot and killed their puppy

Posted: Sep 14, 2009 10:57 PM CDT Monday, September 14, 2009 11:57 PM ESTUpdated: Sep 15, 2009 7:30 AM CDT Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:30 AM EST

Family claims neighbor shot and killed their puppy




By Janice Broach - bio | email | Twitter | Facebook







TUNICA, MS (WMC-TV) - A north Mississippi family is demanding answers after their dog was allegedly shot and killed by a neighbor.
The family doesn't have a picture of their 6-month-old puppy Kipper, a Husky Shepherd mix. But Samuel and Skylar Snowden remember Saturday morning, when a neighbor shot and killed Kipper right in front of them and their friends..
Skylar now wears Kipper's dog collar.
"To keep a good memory of him, and I miss him," she said.
The children say they were at the pond behind their house playing, something they did almost every day with their dogs. They say Kipper and his friend Jade were playing when their neighbor shot Kipper.
"I thought he had shot my brother," said Caleb Biggart, a family friend. "My brother was standing right beside him and blood got all over him."
They ran home and told their parents.
"As soon as the bullet went through, my 6-year-old's hand was on the dog's head," said Samuel and Skylar's mother, Jodie Snowden. "I found out later from the vet that had it exited the dogs abdomen, which it almost did, it would have gone through my 6-year-old son."
Tunica County employee and volunteer firefighter Michael Wrenn shot Kipper..
"I did what I did to protect my family," he said.
Wrenn, standing with his family and his lawyer, Stan Little, didn't want to say anything else. According to Little, Wrenn claimed he was protecting his children from the dog after it had chased them earlier in the day.
"When the dog chased after the children yet again, Mike had no choice but to go outside and shoot the dog with a small 22 caliber, small caliber rifle," Little said.
Little tells a different story from the children, saying Kipper was in Wrenn's yard when he was shot.

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[shiciapsisy]

How awful.

he did it to "protect" his family?! What a bastard! It's just a puppy! I hate people. RIP poor Kipper.

[Marlboro-oroblraM]

Family claims neighbor shot and killed their puppy

Posted: Sep 14, 2009 10:57 PM CDT Monday, September 14, 2009 11:57 PM ESTUpdated: Sep 15, 2009 7:30 AM CDT Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:30 AM EST

Family claims neighbor shot and killed their puppy




By Janice Broach - bio | email | Twitter | Facebook







"I thought he had shot my brother," said Caleb Biggart, a family friend. "My brother was standing right beside him and blood got all over him."

It seems that both sides have a different sequence of events.....

[Quigoxito]

That's completely uncalled for, he's 'protecting' his children by shooting a puppy and putting a 6 yr old in danger?
As a father himself, you would think he'd have more sense then that.

R.I.P. Kipper..

[excholza]

Everything in Memphis is settled with a gun these days.

[eI7iqNot]

That poor puppy and those kids that seen it..sad.very sad

[EtellaObtaite]

Even if the dog was a threat to that guy's kids, he was in the wrong for shooting it so close to a child/human being and is lucky that the child wasn't hurt physically by it.

That is if either side is being honest.

[excholza]

My question is, will any charges be filed? Probably not... shootings happen every second in Memphis. After all, "It was just a dog", but it could have been one of those kids instead that got in the way of the bullet intended for the dog.

[enteltcheft]

[wheettebott]

Everyone keeps saying memphis, doesn't it say Tunica, MS?? Anyway, dude should be beaten to death.

[Amfdaaandhaq]

Wow, that's messed up any way you look at it.

[dushappeaps]

Wow, that's messed up any way you look at it.

Well said! There IS no justification for what he did.

[Repwailia]

RIP puppy.
ugh!! i hope someone shoots that bastard!!

[d1Bc25UP]

Sick.