Grashorn claimed the dog “aggressively” approached him, justifying his ultimately deadly force. The couple sued the city of Loveland, along with Officer Grashorn. He was euthanized after spending four days in intensive care.Īdding insult to injuries resulting in death, Grashorn issued a summons for unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog to the grieving couple, a charge that was ultimately dismissed.

By that time it was too late for Herkimer. Then he prevented the couple from comforting the wounded animal or seeking help for its wounds, delaying any medical care until after a supervisor had arrived. However, another of their dogs, a terrier/boxer mix named Herkimer trotted towards the officer. He yelled at the couple to get their dog, which the couple did, calling back their 16-year-old dog, Bubba, who was first to greet the officer. Officer Grashorn arrived, exited his vehicle, and was greeted by one of the couple’s dogs running toward him. The business owner called the police after noticing this on his security cameras, claiming he felt the couple was perhaps attempting to tamper with his locked dumpster.

This killing happened only 13 seconds after Officer Grashorn arrived, something confirmed by his own body camera recording.Ĭolorado residents Wendy Love and Jay Hamm had done nothing more than stop in the vacant parking lot of a local business to give their dogs a chance to stretch their legs while the couple took a look at the second-hand ice machine they had acquired. So, when Loveland (CO) police officer Matthew Grashorn arrived on the scene of a non-crime, he did what cops do: he killed someone’s dog. dogs encounters an “epidemic” and estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed each day by law enforcement officers. Laurel Matthews, a supervisory program specialist with the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (DOJ COPS) office, says it’s an awful lot. It happens so often even the DOJ has taken notice.

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