An animal control officer in Fayette County is facing multiple charges after police say he euthanized two dogs that had gotten away from their owners by shooting them to death.

"We're still trying to wrap our minds around it, how this could happen?" owner Lara Mickey said.

Lara Mickey is talking about her two dogs — a boxer and a husky, with the names Roxie and Luna.

According to the criminal complaint, police responded to a report of two dogs abandoned and tied to a pole on Sept. 5 at the Fort Mason Village Housing in Masontown.

Mickey said she left her two dogs, a boxer and a husky, to go to a high school football game. Mickey said she and her boyfriend were not aware that Roxie and Luna broke away from the property until they returned home at about 10 p.m.

"We kind of walked the wo

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