{"id":300421,"date":"2014-05-09T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300421"},"modified":"2014-05-11T08:47:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T13:47:11","slug":"deputy-indicted-on-animal-cruelty-charge-after-shooting-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300421","title":{"rendered":"Former Deputy Indicted on Animal Cruelty Charge after Shooting Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/dooleymiddletonfamilyvid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/dooleymiddletonfamilyvid-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"dooleymiddletonfamilyvid\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-300422\" \/><\/a>EMORY \u2014 The now-former deputy who shot an East Texas homeowner&#8217;s dog has been indicted by a Rains County grand jury for animal cruelty.  According to KETK, the Rains County District Clerk&#8217;s Office confirmed Jerrod Dooley has been charged with the crime.  Dooley was fired in late April by the sheriff&#8217;s office after being placed on administrative leave for several days following the shooting on Farm to Market 514. The owner said he drowned his dog to end his suffering.  A necropsy showed the dog was shot in the back of his head while retreating from the shooter.  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The deputy responded to a call for help nearly two hours after a robbery was reported. The delay was investigated and the cause was found and corrected with administrative actions, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.   Dooley stated after the incident, he felt in danger of being attacked by the family dog and reacted by shooting to keep from being bitten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMORY \u2014 The now-former deputy who shot an East Texas homeowner&#8217;s dog has been indicted by a Rains County grand jury for animal cruelty. According to KETK, the Rains County District Clerk&#8217;s Office confirmed Jerrod Dooley has been charged with the crime. Dooley was fired in late April by the sheriff&#8217;s office after being placed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=300421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former Deputy Indicted on Animal Cruelty Charge after Shooting Dog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 01:06:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300426,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421\/revisions\/300426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}