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Fatal shooting of dog leads to firing of Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputy

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September 6th, 2018 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A sheriff’s deputy in northwest Iowa has been fired over the fatal shooting of a dog. Cherokee County Sheriff’s Deputy Alec Wolf was fired this week after video of the incident surfaced on social media. The shooting happened in early August after a report in Cleghorn that a dog had attacked two other dogs, killing one of them. Deputy Wolf had claimed he shot the animal outside of city limits. He was placed on leave days later, after a Cleghorn resident reported the dog was actually shot in his yard. He took photos and said the deputy shot the dog 10 times before trying to clean up the scene.