Veteran Executes Her Own Service Dog While Giggling

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.newser.com/story/241861/cops-veteran-soldier-killed-therapy-
dog-while-giggling.html

(NEWSER) – When volunteers appealed for someone to adopt a 2-year-old pit
bull that had arrived at a North Carolina animal shelter, it was with the
hope that the dog would find "a real loving forever home." Instead, the
dog met a gruesome end last week when he was shot to death—allegedly by
his owner, as cameras and laughter rolled, police tell the Fayetteville
Observer. Authorities say Army veteran Marinna Rollins and her soldier
boyfriend Jarren Heng took Rollins' dog, named Cam, to a wooded area, tied
it to a tree, shot it at close range, then buried it in a shallow grave,
per WTVD. In an April 17 Facebook post, however, Rollins had said she'd
found a new home for Cam, originally adopted by her estranged husband,
because caring for him was too expensive.

"Sad he has to go, but he will be much happier where he is heading off
to," wrote Rollins, 23, who had Cam certified as a support dog for PTSD
after her husband was deployed to South Korea; she medically retired from
the Army at the beginning of the year. "He's going to have such a great
new life," Heng, 25, added in a comment. But according to police, Rollins
shot the dog five times as Heng recorded the incident, then filmed Heng
firing several more shots. Both Rollins and Heng, now charged with cruelty
to animals and conspiracy, are heard on video "laughing and giggling" as
the dog dies, says the Cumberland County DA. As for how the crime
surfaced, WNCN reports someone who knows Rollins posted video of the
shooting to Facebook with the intention of police catching wind of it.
(This instance of animal cruelty involved spilled vodka.)