Posted on 01/09/2014 12:02:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
A South Carolina man who killed a police dog during a gunfight and chase has pleaded guilty and will serve 35 years in prison, officials said. Maurice McCreary, 24, admitted he fired a half-dozen shots at officers who were pursuing him after an armed robbery Dec. 16, 2011. No officers were hit but Fargo, who along with a large contingent of police was chasing McCreary.
When Fargo caught up to McCreary the dog bit him and latched on. As McCreary tried to run away he shot at the animal. Fargo survived long enough to make it to an emergency veterinarian but died later that night.
Several officers who testified at Monday's hearing became emotional when recalling that night, including Richland County Sheriff's investigator Warren Cavanagh, Fargo's handler, the State of Columbia reported.
"Who did he have that gun drawn for?" Cavanagh asked. "Yes, there was a dog that was killed, but he was killed doing his job and that was protecting these officers that night."
Eventually more than 200 officers were called in to help hunt down McCreary over a nine-hour span. He was eventually found sleeping in a shed behind a home in the area.
McCreary apologized to officers before receiving his sentence.
"Being bit by a dog, I did freak out and I did shoot at the dog," McCreary said. "I just ask that you accept my apology. It was never my intention to go out that night and shoot at officers and have a shootout."
McCreary pleaded guilty to five counts of attempted murder and one count of killing a police dog. He was sentenced to five concurrent 30-year terms for the attempted murder charges and an additional five years for killing the police dog, to be served after he completes the attempted murder sentences.
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“Actually, you would be better off reading about them in papers OUTSIDE of the country...!”
Yeah, isn’t that a trip! You have to read The Guardian or some other British paper to get the “real” news in the US. I just wonder if the reverse is true. When you “peel the political onion,” you have to put the college “professors” at the head of the list of those if whom we need to rid ourselves. Next come the PE union teachers, and lastly the Lamestream Media because they learned everything they know from the first two groups. Politicians are the crap that didn’t make it in any useful line of work, or they are the lazy lawyers who were too slow to chase ambulances for a living.
The politicians are all “wet” about “allowing citizens” to have guns, and yet they don’t have any qualms about giving someone with barely a GED a weapon.
One set of rules for thee and quite another for me ping...
Still, that's five more years than a cop would get for shooting your dog.
Or you for that matter.
nothing will happen to him on the yard or sallyports or common area
not for shooting a police dog
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