Police officers with the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) shot two dogs late Friday morning, killing one, after responding to reports of three dogs attacking another and one biting a pedestrian.
The SFPD published a press release on Friday night outlining the incident, stating that officers arrived at the scene around 10:50 a.m. local time after receiving a report that three dogs were attacking another dog.
Upon arrival, the officers witnessed one of the dogs attacking a pedestrian, and “shortly thereafter, an officer-involved discharge occurred where one of the attacking dogs was fatally struck,” the police department said in its release.
The incident took place near a Safeway shopping center parking lot.
Newsweek has reached out to the SFPD media relations team for additional comment via email on Saturday.
Following the fatal incident, a second dog was contained and taken into custody by Animal Care and Control, but the third ran …