Chihuahua puppy fatally shot by sniper

Off-duty Officer Miguel Osorio immediately phoned 911 to report seeing the sniper who shot a Chihuahua puppy dead.

Davie police have released a recording of the 911 call in which he describes the Sept. 29 pellet-rifle attack on a pup named Princess.

The dispatcher may not have realized the urgency of the matter, asking if officers should show up. “Do you need police — or just paramedics?” she asks.

Osorio replies, “I need police. Yeah, they committed a crime. That’s animal cruelty.”

During Osorio’s 911 call, he says, “I was driving by and I saw it happen.” He describes the man with the weapon, perched on a balcony.

The 911 call was edited to omit Osorio’s name, but Davie police have previously identified him as the off-duty Pembroke Pines officer who helped.

Osorio later repeated to the dispatcher, “I need police!” The dispatcher assures him that police are on the way.

The officer describes how the weapon was some sort of pellet gun. “I didn’t hear any shot, and a gun that big would have made a really loud noise,” he said. “So it’s got to be a BB gun or some sort of paint gun. They killed a dog.”

Davie police arrested Johansen Concepcion De La Ros, 19, on charges of animal cruelty. If convicted, he could face five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

COURTESY OF ROSHELLE PEARSON Princess, a Chihuahua puppy shot and killed on Sept. 29 in Davie, moved to South Florida with her family from Wisconsin two days before she was killed by a man with a pellet rifle.