BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
LAKE BUTLER — Union deputies arrested a 59-year-o ld Raiford woman after she shot a handgun toward a neighbor’s dog that was in her back yard, and then shot at the dog’s owner.
Donna Susan Green was arrested on Jan. 13 for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
According to an arrest report, Green called 911 to let deputies know that she fired the weapon only to scare off the dog and aimed into the ground.
Deputy Staci L. Stock wrote in the report that when she arrived on the scene, Green was sitting at one end of her porch and a black handgun was lying at the other end.
Green told the deputy that she was in her kitchen when she spotted the neighbor’s dog wandering into her yard.
“She further elaborated that she ran out of the back door and started yelling, telling the dog to get out of her yard,” Stock wrote in the report. “She continued telling me that she shot in the dirt at the dog to scare it away.”
The dog’s owner told Master Sgt. C.T. Hanlon that she was in her shed when she heard a gunshot.
The neighbor added that after she told Green she would get the dog and advised her to calm down, the woman continued to discharge rounds.
“She walked over to get the dog by the collar to bring it home, when Ms. Green shot at her from approximately five feet away,” according to Hanlon.
The round struck the ground to the left of the neighbor, one foot from where the neighbor was standing. The victim said Green then fired another round which struck the ground to the right of her feet.
Hanlon said bullet holes in the ground were in locations described by the victim.
