FLORIDA –57 year-old Dennis Eugene Emery was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“He was involved in a domestic disturbance with his wife,” Sgt. Adam Geissenberger of the Pinellas Park Police Dept. told Fox 13. “During that disturbance he retrieves a firearm, he produces the firearm, and he threatens to shoot one of the family’s animals.”
The man’s wife had 13 dogs and their barking was frequently an argument.
While allegedly threatening to shoot the dog, Emery pulled the hammer back on his revolver. When trying to release the hammer, however, the gun went off, according to the St. Petersburg Tribune.
The Tampa Bay Times said Emery had convictions for drunken driving in 1977, carrying a concealed weapon in 1978, disorderly conduct and public intoxication in 1983. The paper said he had 34 contacts with Pinellas Park police since 2012.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office lists four arrests in the past five months. In July, he was arrested on domestic battery charges.
