A woman and her service dog are recuperating after a distressing incident involving a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) officer, where the dog was shot in the Riverside neighborhood. The officer was responding to a reported armed dispute between two women on Friday, one of whom was a veteran accompanied by her PTSD service dog. During the law enforcement response, the dog bit an officer, prompting the shooting.
According toAction News Jax, the chain of events unfolded around 2:30 p.m. after a woman, Jaimie Phillips, sought to recover a missing item of emotional significance from her husband’s car, which had been broken into. JSO Chief Alan Parker elaborated that Phillips, along with her four-year-old daughter and their dog, had gone to the area of College Road, between Willow Branch and McDuff avenues, to search for the bag.
As the search led them to the railroad tracks near College Street and Roosevelt Boulevard, the situation became confrontational. Phillips reportedly came across a bicycle, not associated with her missing items, drawing attention from another woman. JSO explained toNews4Jaxthat this led to a “little heated” altercation.
The JSO officer arrived on the scene following a call at 2:30 p.m. about a woman involved in an altercation with another woman, and she was armed. During the detainment of both women, the 10-year-old German Shepherd, named Milo, bit the officer, forcing a reaction that ended in the service dog being shot multiple times, and a fragment, which may have been a bullet, grazed the owner, according toFirst Coast News. Despite the gravity of the situation, the injured service dog is expected to make a recovery.
“Some of his property was already recovered over here on the tracks. So today she came out to walk the tracks to see if they found anything else. My understanding, there s a bag missing. It was pretty significant to him. It s got some emotional attachment,” the JSO relayed in a news conference, as learned from aNews4Jaxreport.
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