LCPD defends shooting dog that rushed officers
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico The Las Cruces Police Department is defending the shooting of a dog that rushed two of its officers earlier this week, calling it an unfortunate and tragic incident.
The officers responded to a welfare check when police said the dog charged at them, leaving them no choice but to fatally shoot it.
It happened on at a home on Willow Street just west of Interstate 25 and north of Lohman Avenue around 2 p.m. Monday.
According to police, a man made a 911 call requesting a welfare check for a potentially suicidal relative who lived next door.
About 2:20 p.m. on Monday, June 28, the Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority, the 911 call center for Las Cruces and most of Dona Ana County, received a call from a man who requested a welfare check on a relative. The man told the call-taker that his relative had not slept in six to seven days and may have suicidal ideations.
The man told the call-taker that he owns several big dogs and that he would “corral” them. Near the end of the call with 911, the call-taker reiterated concern for the dogs and asked the man to put them away. The man said he would. Information about the dogs, and that their owner would confine them, was passed along to the two officers who responded to the welfare check.
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