A woman’s dogs were reportedly shot to death and their bodies burned up by a man who spotted them outside of his property fence and decided to kill them instead of driving them off or calling animal control. According to the accused, Randy Wall, he had to shoot the dogs because they were a threat to the deer he breeds on his property. He says that he saw them trying to get under his fence and drove them away, but when they came back, he shot all three of them as a “last resort.”
According to police, Wall’s conduct was within the law on killing domestic animals, which states that it’s legal as long as the person who killed the animals “reasonably believes” it was necessary to “protect the property of the accused person from destruction or substantial damage.” Police are apparently interpreting this vague language to side with Wall even though the dogs weren’t even technically on his property.
The dogs’ owner, Dana Drew, lives in a subdivision and says that her dogs would have been afraid of the deer since they would have never seen such an animal before. It seems unlikely that the dogs would have been able to hurt the deer, especially from outside the fence. It also seems suspect that Wall did not try to take additional action to avoid having to shoot the dogs such as calling animal control to round up what he correctly identified as domesticated dogs that clearly belonged to somebody.
Furthermore, Wall’s neighbors allege that he got on a four-wheeler and chased the dogs down for 20 minutes, firing dozens of shots at them as they fled before he killed the last dog. This sounds more like a brutal hunt than an attempt to protect one’s property.
Thanks to the fact that Wall burned the bodies for some unstated reason, Drew can’t even have a proper burial for her deceased companions. Because police decided not to investigate, she may never find justice if we don’t speak up for her and for Storm, Lola, and Buster. Sign this petition to demand that the incident be investigated and that Randy Wall be changed for the unnecessary slaughter of these dogs.
