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HUNTSVILLE -- Former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell still feels upset about the shooting death of his service dog DASY almost three years after the fact.When the local war hero took the stand Thursday in the cruelty to non-livestock animals trial of Alfonso Hernandez, one of the two accused in the case, Luttrell said he was so angry the night his dog was killed that he drew a pistol on the car the suspects were riding in."I wanted to take a shot at the driver, but I figured if I missed and shot out the back window, I would not be able to catch them," Luttrell said.[URL="http://kitup.military.com/2011/12/lone-survivors-dog-dasy-finally.html"]Read more about this story, including exclusive details, at Military.com's Kit Up! blog.[/URL]An hour after DASY was shot on April 1, 2009, law enforcement officers eventually caught up to the car with Luttrell's help. And Thursday, Luttrell got some closure in the case.Hernandez was found guilty of a state jail felony by a Walker County jury of four men and eight women in the 278th District Court.Two days earlier, Michael Edmonds pleaded guilty to the same charge and admitted he was the one who fired the shot that killed DASY, a Labrador retriever that was given to Luttrell by friends to help him cope with emotional and physical injuries he sustained while fighting in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Edmonds and Hernandez, who was charged as an accomplice, will have to wait for a pre-sentence investigation to be conducted before a punishment is handed down, which is expected to take place in February. Cruelty to non-livestock animals carries a sentence of up to two years in a state facility and a $10,000 fine.Luttrell, who left as soon as he finished testifying Thursday morning, is best known for being the lone survivor of a mission in June 2005 when his SEAL team was pinned down in a firefight with Taliban forces in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Navy Cross for combat heroism in 2006.Luttrell had DASY, whose name is an acronym of the initials of Luttrell's team members who were killed in the firefight, for four years. He testified Thursday that at around 2 a.m. on April 1, 2009, he let DASY out and sat down in his home on Four Notch Road in southeast Walker County, to watch television because he had trouble sleeping.Luttrell said he heard a single gunshot, grabbed his pistol and ran next door to his mother's residence to check on her. He then made his way down to the roadway, crawled underneath a fence and saw DASY had been shot."I saw my dog in a ditch and two men standing outside the car," Luttrell said with his new service dog by his side on the stand. "I could hear them laughing."The car, which belonged to Alfonso Hernandez, was being driven by Caleb McGough. Edmonds and Arturo Hernandez, Alfonso's brother, were also passengers. McGough and Arturo Hernandez did not face charges in the case.Edmonds testified that he shot DASY, but that the others wanted to go back and look at the dog. He said that Alfonso Hernandez then got out and started beating the dog with a wooden baseball bat.Luttrell chased the suspects through Walker, San Jacinto and Polk counties before a patrol officer with the Onalaska Police Department pulled the car over on Highway 190 near the bridge over Lake Livingston.The jury heard testimony this week from Texas Ranger Steve Jeter, who helped investigate the case, and Edmonds that Alfonso Hernandez and Edmonds were connected to other dog shootings prior to the incident on Four Notch Road."This time they shot the wrong dog, the dog of a man who can't sleep at night," Walker County Assistant District Attorney John Hafley said during closing arguments. " ... Everyone else would have been sleeping. They shot the wrong dog and this time they were stopped. ... (Alfonso Hernandez) is a dog killer who celebrated like they scored a touchdown."Defense attorney Fritz Barnett challenged the state's lack of evidence that his client knowingly and intentionally took part in DASY's death. He said Alfonso Hernandez was out hunting varmints and had no idea Edmonds was going to shoot a dog."(Alfonso Hernandez) was out hunting rabbits, coons and possums," Barnett said in closing arguments. "... It would have been like if Mr. Luttrell had been out on patrol in Afghanistan and one of his men up and shot a woman or a child and Mr. Luttrell was held responsible. Alfonso was not responsible for what Mr. Edmonds did."... Going out and shooting dogs might have been in (Edmonds') mind, but there is no shred of evidence it was in Alfonso's mind."Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Stroud went back to the testimony of Luttrell and Edmonds before the state rested its case. Luttrell said he heard laughing and Edmonds said Alfonso Hernandez laughed while he hit DASY with a bat."(Alfonso Hernandez) got out and kicked and beat that dog and thought it was funny. They thought it was just another dog," she said. "To Marcus Luttrell it was so much more. It was a symbol he carried around for what happened to him. He was reminded of the people it was named after. To Marcus Luttrell that was just not another dog."[/release]
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Motherfucking justice.
You know you've fucked up if a Navy SEAL pulls a pistol on you.
You need to fix your quote by the way, there's an ad right in the middle there.
Those guys are lucky to be alive after doing something like that to a SEAL.
They fucked with the wrong person. They're lucky he didn't already shoot them right then and there.
People that do this kind of thing really piss me off.
You don't fuck with a SEAL. You especially don't fuck with someone's service dog who is probably his best friend.
a SEAL member deserves every ounce of respect they get
If someone says 'But it's just a dog' I sincerely hope there's a wave of friendly to counteract the stupid.
That being said, I feel sorry for the SEAL, poor guy lost his friend that day. I'm surprised he didn't shoot
Shoot the dog of a SEAL? Did the guy have a deathwish or something.
That story is awful. Imagine having the symbol of your friends' lost lives killed in cold blood like that. So much respect for the guy and how he handled himself.
Shit with that jury it's pretty much guaranteed justice.
Really, shooting dogs just for fun and beating them with a baseball bat and celebrating the kill?
Good that he controlled himself and didn't just shoot the fucking cowards. They will face a hell of a lot worse fate in prison after the other inmates hear what they're in for..
Why would someone kill people's dogs for fun.
Just why.
So was the dog on his property (the SEAL's) or not? Way it's written in the article, it sounds like he just let the dog out loose on the street or something. Not that I'm defending or justifying what whoever shot it did.
[QUOTE=RayvenQ;33578912]So was the dog on his property (the SEAL's) or not? Way it's written in the article, it sounds like he just let the dog out loose on the street or something. Not that I'm defending or justifying what whoever shot it did.[/QUOTE]
Because the dog being loose in the street makes it better
[QUOTE=Gubbygub;33580133]Because the dog being loose in the street makes it better[/QUOTE]
He was just curious and made that clear in his post.
It seemed to me that the SEAL let the dog out into his yard. Im sure it was well trained.
[quote]He then made his way down to the roadway, crawled underneath a fence [/quote]
Is what made me curious, since normally yards don't have roadways, fences that you have to crawl under and ditches in them.
[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;33578371]Shoot the dog of a SEAL? Did the guy have a deathwish or something.[/QUOTE]
Mr Luttrell tells me on Facebook they beat the dog with a bat before shooting her. Luttrell chased them down in his truck while relaying information to the cops until the PD showed up and he let them take over the chase.
EDIT: Oh, that is mentioned in the full article. My bad.
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[QUOTE=RayvenQ;33580342]Is what made me curious, since normally yards don't have roadways, fences that you have to crawl under and ditches in them.[/QUOTE]
Texas. They could have a road for miles on their property.
[QUOTE]DASY, a Labrador retriever that was given to Luttrell by friends to help him cope with emotional and physical injuries he sustained while fighting in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.[/QUOTE]
Dasy was more than just a friend. I don't think many people coulnd controll themselves if someone did something like this.
Especially when you are aware of that, that your training and expierience allows you to take their lives without much effort.
[quote]"I saw my dog in a ditch and two men standing outside the car," Luttrell said with his new service dog by his side on the stand. "I could hear them laughing."The car, which belonged to Alfonso Hernandez, was being driven by Caleb McGough. Edmonds and Arturo Hernandez, Alfonso's brother, were also passengers. McGough and Arturo Hernandez did not face charges in the case.Edmonds testified that he shot DASY, but that the others wanted to go back and look at the dog. He said that Alfonso Hernandez then got out and started beating the dog with a wooden baseball bat.[/quote]
Why.
Like, you could explain this quite well if the people were young (delinquent behavior being well documented and all) but it seemed like they were adults. Again, why.
[QUOTE=Canuhearmenow;33581103]Why.
Like, you could explain this quite well if the people were young (delinquent behavior being well documented and all) but it seemed like they were adults. Again, why.[/QUOTE]Simple sociopathy.
[quote]He said Alfonso Hernandez was out hunting varmints and had no idea Edmonds was going to shoot a dog."(Alfonso Hernandez) was out hunting rabbits, coons and possums," Barnett said in closing arguments.[/quote]
This was a terrible argument from the lawyer because it's poaching to hunt on land that isn't yours without permission from the owner and it does not matter if it is a nuisance animal.
For those who would like to know more about the operation where Luttrell lost his team mates: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings[/url]
SEAL or not, nobody deserves to have that done to their dog. That is fucked up and the guy should be punished for murdering an animal
Those dogs cost a shitton by the way. They're not just "dogs". They're fucking super dogs that get $10-20,000 in doggy gear like bulletproof vest and goggles.
[QUOTE=wabash;33581178]This was a terrible argument from the lawyer because it's poaching to hunt on land that isn't yours without permission from the owner and it does not matter if it is a nuisance animal.[/QUOTE]
Let's not also forget how the fact they went back to beat the dog with a baseball bat didn't really fit the bill of varmint hunting or "I didn't know he'd kill a dog."
Also very respectable that he didn't shoot them, despite wanting to.
[QUOTE=NO ONE;33581871]Those dogs cost a shitton by the way. They're not just "dogs". They're fucking super dogs that get $10-20,000 in doggy gear like bulletproof vest and goggles.[/QUOTE]
Was a regular service/aid dog, not a military working dog. Doesn't diminish the fact that what those people did was utterly terrible though.
[QUOTE]DASY, whose name is an acronym of the initials of Luttrell's team members who were killed in the firefight[/quote]
Thats really messed up, what kind of ass hole shoots a dog? Dogs are family to most people, what possesses someone to do something like this.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;33582691]Thats really messed up, what kind of ass hole shoots a dog? Dogs are family to most people, what possesses someone to do something like this.[/QUOTE]
Childhood abuse, lack of emotional connections early on, you know how it goes.
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