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SEATTLE -- A Seattle police officer shot a dog in West Seattle on Wednesday while dealing with a domestic incident, Seattle police said. Police arrived at a home in the 3400 block of 44th Avenue Southwest at about 1:20 p.m. where someone had reported a woman screaming, police said. Two dogs rushed through an open front door at an officer when he arrived, police said. The officer opened fire, killed one dog and wounded the other, police said. A woman at the home is in custody for unknown reasons and police are questioning a man in his 70s, police said....

(edit) Seattle police are now searching for Ahmed Mohamed and Jonathan Baquiring after DNA recently linked the two men to the attack in which a 16-year-old boy was robbed, taunted with racial insults, burned with a lit cigarette and punched repeatedly. Mohamed, 22, and Baquiring, 21, each were charged Monday with first-degree robbery and malicious harassment, the state's hate-crime statute. King County Deputy Prosecutor Samantha Kanner said in charging paperwork that she is seeking to have the men held in jail on $500,000 bail once they are arrested. The victim, Shane McClellan, said he was walking home around 2 a.m....