City Officials Tight-Lipped After Dowell Dog Found Shot to Death
DOWELL (IL) -- A woman in Dowell is looking for answers after her dog was found shot to death.
Witnesses believe the mayor ordered a police officer to kill the dog because it was running loose. News of the incident is traveling fast on social media, but city officials aren't saying anything citing an on-going investigation.
"He was so nice and he'd come up and lick you," said the dog owner, Brittany Tilley, of Dowell.
It's the last thing Tilley expected to happen to her dog Boots. The two-year-old beagle-lab mix was found shot in the head in her yard Sunday night.
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A neighbor and friend of the Tilleys, 20-year-old Damian Sowl, says he was walking his dog that evening when Dowell Police Officer Ralph Smith approached him asking for the Tilley's number.
"The mayor, Dennis, stopped me on the side of the road and said keep off this street and everything, cause the dog was loose and I told him I'd pick up the dog and take him back and put him up and everything for them and he said, no we're going to handle it my way," Sowl explained.
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