A woman is expressing outrage after claiming that both she and her dog were shot during an incident in Fort Lauderdale on Friday. According to police reports, the situation escalated when her dog and another dog got into a fight, prompting the other dog’s owner to pull out a gun.
Emile Grimm acknowledged that her dog initiated the fight on Seabreeze Boulevard, but she strongly disagrees with how the conflict was handled. She believes the response was excessive and that there were other ways to de-escalate the situation without resorting to gunfire.
“In shock and deeply traumatized,” Emile Grimm recounted the terrifying moments leading up to the shooting. “The whole time, he kept saying, ‘I’m going to shoot your dog,’ and I was begging him, ‘Please don’t shoot my dog.’ This kind of thing happens, but what’s most upsetting is that he still did it even after everything was under control,” she said.
Grimm explained that she had been walking her two pit bulls in Fort Lauderdale on Friday when one of them, Sweetie, suddenly lunged at another dog and bit down on its ear. As the situation unfolded, both Grimm and the other dog’s owner attempted to separate the animals, desperately trying to break up the fight before it escalated any further.
As the intense struggle to separate the dogs unfolded, Emile Grimm described her desperate efforts to stop the fight. “I immediately kneeled on my dog’s neck, trying to restrain him. I was punching him, doing everything I could to get him to release his grip, and the other owner—a large man—was doing the same,” she recalled. “But the whole time, he kept saying, ‘I’m going to kill your dog,’ and I pleaded with him, ‘Please don’t.’”
According to Grimm, the situation took a turn for the worse when her dog bit the other owner’s leg. At that moment, police say, the man pulled out a gun and shot her dog. Grimm, who was still struggling to gain control of the situation, says she was also injured when a bullet grazed her hand.
“I was cradling my dog’s neck, trying to comfort her, when the man, now kneeling on one knee, pulled out his gun,” Grimm recounted. “He looked at me and said, ‘I told you I was going to shoot your dog.’” In a desperate attempt to protect her pet, Grimm instinctively put her hand in the line of fire. “The bullet grazed my hand—I saw the skin fly off,” she said. “Then he fired a second shot, which went through the other side of my dog.”
Grimm described the aftermath as sheer chaos. “I was holding her, covered in blood, while my own hand was bleeding. People were just standing there, videotaping,” she said. Meanwhile, the shooter remained calm and unapologetic. “He stood there like nothing had happened and said, ‘I did it, I have a gun permit.’ And I just thought, ‘How dare you?’” she said. “I was begging for help for my dog—it was complete chaos.”
As of Saturday, Grimm’s dog, Sweetie, remained at the veterinarian’s office, recovering from the gunshot wound. According to Grimm, Sweetie was alert and responding well to treatment while receiving antibiotics. The previous night, veterinarians successfully removed the bullet from the dog’s neck.
Grimm’s boyfriend, Anthony Laplant, expressed outrage over the shooting, emphasizing the potential danger of the situation. “What if that bullet had hit a child? It would be a completely different story,” he said. “I’m hoping they put this guy in jail.”
Grimm confirmed that police had asked if she wanted to press charges, and she did not hesitate to say yes. She acknowledged that the situation could have unfolded in many different ways but firmly believed the way it ended was unjust.
“My dog started it, yes, but it ended the wrong way,” Grimm said. “It should never have ended like that.”
As of Saturday, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department had not provided any further updates on the case.
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