Dog dies after being speared with broomstick
CBC News Monday 23rd April, 2012
A dog out with its owner on an evening walk north of Toronto has died after a man allegedly speared it with a broomstick on Friday. The attack occurred at around 5:45 p.m. Friday on Pine Bough Manor near Bayview and 19th avenues in Richmond Hill. A woman was walking the dog, a six-year-old Shetland sheepdog, when she was approached by a man, who then speared the dog with the broomstick, said York Regional Police Const. Rebecca Boyd. The dog la...
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