Police officer shoots and kills a dog after being attacked

555 A Burnet police officer shot and killed one dog and injured another after three dogs attacked her and a man on a neighborhood street. Patrol Cpl. Alex Fidler responded when a man reported being attacked by three large dogs in the 700 block of South Vanderveer, near Burnet Elementary School, on Thursday, June 14. The officer was checking out the man's injuries when the dogs returned. Police reviewed body camera footage which showed Fidler trying to get away from the dogs. "If she did not have that, then it would be our word against their word," Chief Paul Nelson said. In the body cam , Cpl. Fidler can be heard saying, "You better send me another unit, I'm about to shoot 'em all." "In the process; Cpl. Fidler had to protect the citizen and herself. Cpl. Fidler unfortunately had to discharge her duty weapon twice, striking and killing one dog, striking and injuring a second dog; the third was not shot and ran away from the scene," according to a release from Burnet Police Department. The injured dog was found and given medical attention. Fidler was bitten on both her arms and went to the hospital. The Burnet Police Department posted a photograph of the officer's bite wounds on their Facebook page. "If one dog was by itself, it may not have happened. But once they grouped together, the three, they followed one of them and the attack was on and the officer tried to get away and she couldn't," Nelson said. The man had minor injuries and did not go to the hospital for treatment.

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