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A Tucson man will spend three years on probation for shooting his neighbor's dog, but he said he'd do it again under the same circumstances.
Ralph Edwin Adamson, 50, shot at two dogs in October, wounding one so badly it had to be euthanized.
Adamson told the judge who sentenced him that he had seen two pit bulls chasing someone down his street and shot in self-defense.
"I regret the incident that morning," Adamson said at his sentencing Friday. "This was one of those unfortunate things that happen. I had no premeditation or intention of hurting anyone. I found myself the victim of two pit bulls. I had to make a decision, and I made it."
Prosecutors disagreed and charged him with four felonies, including endangering dog owner Tierra Grady, who says she was chasing her dogs to get them back in her yard. He pleaded guilty last month to unlawful discharge of a firearm and endangerment.
Grady says her dogs weren't a danger.
"It infuriates me that he sits there and says he did this to protect someone," Grady said. She said her dog was a basenji, not a pit bull, though the heads have a similar shape. Only Grady and Adamson were on the street that day.
Adamson lives half a block away from Grady, and she still sees him regularly.
His attorney, Howard Wine, said Adamson had mental-health issues that contributed to the shooting. But Adamson, a security guard, said he takes medication and his condition was not a factor.
Besides probation, Adamson was ordered not to walk or drive by Grady's home, barred from owning guns and must pay $188 to Grady, $193 to the veterinarian who euthanized the dog and $500 to the Animal Cruelty Taskforce of Southern Arizona.
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