When a man got home, he was sad to see that seven of his dogs were dead and one was only alive because it hid from the shooter, who was allegedly a police officer.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation looked into what happened and arrested 24-year-old police deputy Conner Brackin on Tuesday. He was charged with aggravated animal cruelty.
Brackin went to Bethel Springs, a city about 100 miles east of Memphis, on November 4 because of a “animal welfare concern.” The affidavit says that Brackin talked to the person who complained about the neighbor’s dogs, some of which were in pens and some of which were in two different trailers.
Then Brackin “loaded his service rifle and pistol and began firing into the campers at the dogs.” He then let one of the dogs out of a pen.
He is said to have shot eight times, killing seven dogs.
Kevin Dismuke, who owned the dogs, wasn’t home when they were shot. One of his dogs was dead by the front door when he got home. When Dismuke got home, he didn’t hear his other dogs. He found them dead one by one.
He told WREG, a CBS affiliate in Memphis, “I found our old dog Gator lying between the beds.” “No, I didn’t hear Jasmine.” Max, I haven’t heard. When I went back inside the trailer, Jasmine was lying by the door to the bathroom. All of them are dead except Max. He hid under the bed.
According to the McNairy County Sheriff’s Office, Brackin saw two dogs that were “extremely poor health” and one that was “already deceased.” After trying to find the dogs’ owner, Brackin let a neighbor take one of the dogs and said that his boss had told him it was safe to kill the others.
Dismuke told WREG that the claim was not true, saying, “They were told the property was empty and the dogs were hungry.” I have the paperwork from three weeks ago from the vet in my truck. All of them were in good health.
“I don’t care what you do,” a sad Dismuke said. I don’t mind if you give me $10 or $10 million. “You can’t take my dogs.”
Brackin was looked into by the TBI beginning on November 7. They fired Brackin and put him in jail on felony charges of seven counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts of reckless endangerment.
The McNairy County Sheriff’s office fired Brackin, and he turned himself in. After that, he was taken to the McNairy County Jail.
