This is an absolutely horrendous story. I have no pleasure in sharing this news, and I don’t want to see it any more than you do. But this is egregious, and it needs to stop. He won’t even be charged for it, because his superior officer says that he was acting within his duty by shooting a dog in a fenced yard. That’s why we need to make this heartless murderer – Wynnewood Police Department’s Josh Franklin – known for his heinous crime.
Eli Malone’s birthday will probably always be a painful reminder of what has probably been the worst day in his very young life.
“We had just brought the kids in to give them cake and ice cream,” Vickie Malone told the Daily News. “We weren’t even in the house five minutes and then ‘bang!’”
“Mama, something wrong with Opie,” Eli cried.
Everyone hurried to the window to see the three-year-old American bulldog-pit bull mix lying on the ground. The adults rushed outside to find him “kicking and gasping for air” on one side of the fence as Franklin stood on the other.
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