All charges dropped against him. I first saw the dropped charges on that joke website putnamlive.com . I can't find the original though, but it was so horribly slanted and falsified that I emailed the writer. If you remember, the newblogger was not welcomed with open arms by the shooter.
Anyways, I did find some reputable news stories that were published in the Charleston Paper. The first one is an account that details the shooters story.
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200806250133(note that it is a 2 page document.)
While some of it is true, he has added some details that can't possibly be true. First off, C.J. was not home. Secondly, the shooter was not there for the majority of the episode. Of note in this article is the fact that his lawyer supplied the prosecutor with documents proving that the dog was put down due to aggressiveness. as you'll see in the next article, the owners deny this.
Next is another article that sums up the same thing, but with comments from one of the owners denying many of the shooters claims. I'm putting this in quotes because it was in among other summaries on a page, and wasn't a convenient link.
Dog's owner disputes shooter's story
Havoc, a mixed bull terrier, was wounded in a shooting in January by a Putnam County man who said the dog was aggressive towards his son. Havoc's owner says the man shot the dog without provocation.
Scott Blankenship said he had no choice but to shoot Havoc, a mixed bull terrier, because the dog had a history of aggression and was coming at his 10-year-old son. (See related item below.)
But Amy Sowards said Blankenship shot Havoc without provocation. She says Havoc had a history of playing with neighborhood children, not endangering them.
She denied that Havoc was threatening Blankenship's son, Jason, when he shot the dog.
Sowards said at least a dozen children and about five adults witnessed the shooting.
Blankenship had been charged with three firearms-related misdemeanors stemming from the Jan. 7 incident in the Imperial Estates subdivision in Culloden. But prosecutors dropped the charges because they didn't think a jury would have convicted Blankenship.
Sowards, 26, said she and her fiance, C.J. Pifer, 27, and several neighbors are upset at the decision to drop the charges. Sowards said the decision seems to have been based on Blankenship's version of the events.
Contrary to what Blankenship and Putnam Prosecutor Mark Sorsaia have heard, Sowards said that Havoc was not put down because of aggression.
She said the family gave both Havoc and another dog away because they were worried that Blankenship would harm the dogs.
Sowards maintains that she and Pifer did not let Havoc run loose. She said some neighborhood children had opened the fence door that leads to the backyard in order to play with Havoc.
She said they used to let Havoc run around when he was a pup, but stopped when a neighbor complained that dogs were barking at his wife.
(Charleston Daily Mail)
Culloden man says he had no choice but to shoot pit bull
Putnam County Prosecutor Mark Sorsaia has dropped charges against a Culloden man who was accused of shooting a dog that he claims was being aggressive towards his children.
Scott Blankenship was arrested Jan. 16 for wounding "Havoc," a Staffordshire bull terrier, with a .45 caliber handgun in the Imperial Estates subdivision. Blankenship was charged with three firearm-related misdemeanors.
Blankenship had been set for trial June 17.
But Sorsaia said he didn't think he could have convicted Blankenship, 31. Based on the evidence, Sorsaia figured some on the jury might have decided they would have shot the dog, too.
"It was just a mess and we didn't think we were going to win it," said Sorsaia.
Sorsaia said there was information that the dog was allowed to run loose in the neighborhood and had seriously maimed another dog.
He said his office also received documents from Blankenship's lawyer that Havoc's owners - C.J. Pifer and Amy Sowards - had him put down after the shooting because he was too aggressive. The dog survived the gunshot. (Charleston Daily Mail)
Of course, her story has as much B.S. in it as the shooters story. My question is this: Why would a lawyer endanger his license by providing the county prosecutor with a falsified paper detailing the dog being put down? I can only think that the "friend" they gave the dogs to did the dirty work for them and they claim ignorance. Of course, the rest of her response is pure ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. It makes me want to go smack that dumb ---smurfette---.
So there you have it, the whole story from beginning to end. Should I write a screenplay?
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