An Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer shot a dog Friday morning during an operation to clear homeless camps in Tulsa. The dog later died after surgery.

The dog's owner, Malachi McCullough, said he was camping behind the Tulsa County Jail and asleep about 7 a.m.

"I woke up to a gunshot, and next thing a friend told me my dog had been shot. I jumped up and jumped out trying to save my dog, and started screaming at them, 'Why did you do this to my dog?'"

McCullough said with no one offering help for the animal, he rushed it to the nearby Tulsa Day Center, where staff members got it to a veterinarian, according to Mack Haltom, the Director of the Day Center.

Sarah Stewart, a spokesperson for the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, said troopers "encountered an aggressive dog that suddenly l

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