Tom Brady's children no longer feel safe in their home on Pennington Street in Blue Ridge after the family's pet of 10 years, Saxon, an Alaskan malamute-Australian shepherd mix, was shot in their driveway last month.
Brady was on his way home from work around 5 p.m. March 14 when his wife called him saying she thought their dog had been shot.
When Brady arrived home he discovered a large pool of blood about 30 feet up the driveway next to the house, along with four shells from a 40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun. The dog was missing, Brady said.
He called the Greenville County Sheriff's Office.
A deputy spoke with Brady and several of his neighbors, and a forensics unit took photographs and collected the shells and lead fragments, according to a Sheriff's Office incident report.
They spent about 21/2 hours investigating the scene, Brady said. The forensics unit also took a sample of the blood to confirm that it was dog blood "because there was so much of it," Brady said.
"They thought it was more serious of an act for someone to bring a firearm onto someone's property and fire it," he said.
The Bradys have another dog, a German shepherd mix, which was unharmed.
Soon after the incident, Brady posted a sign offering a $1,000 reward for information about the shooting.
The reward is more for the safety of his family than anything else, Brady said.
"The only thing that kept my wife from encountering them, based on the time frame that we had gathered, is that my daughter forgot her books at Skyland Elementary," Brady said. "Otherwise, she could have been here pulling in the driveway as they were up the road loading up the dog, and there's no way to get out of our property because we have a fence all the way around. There's no telling what someone might have done."
Brady said his two young children wouldn't sleep in their own rooms for several nights after the incident.
Brady said he is surprised that no one has called with information yet, since the incident occurred about the time children were getting out of school and people were getting off work.
"It should have everybody in this area not necessarily worried, but on the lookout," Brady said. Neighborhood MapFor more information about the Interactive Animal Cruelty Maps, see the map notes.
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