A Marion County Sheriff's Office sergeant
said he was forced to shoot his own dog, and now the shooting is under
investigation by his own department and the Hancock County Sheriff's
Department.
"The dog had escaped earlier that day
from his kennel, and while he was out there, the dog tried to come at him,” said
Captain Robert Campbell with the Hancock County Sheriff's Department. “He did
have some bite marks on him from the dog."
According to the police report, Sgt. Tom
Shambaugh's dog Paco "went to the area of the kennel where he had escaped
from that [that] morning."