Iowa cop shoots woman dead in front of family, while trying to pacify their dog

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Iowa cop shoots woman dead in front of family, while trying to pacify their dog

The Cop tries to shoot family dog, slips on ice, & shoots the woman in front of 4 yr-old & husband.

‘An Iowa cop shot and killed a 34-year-old woman in front of her husband and four-year-old son. Witnesses say he was aiming for the family dog, which startled him as he was trying to break up an argument between the couple.

The victim, Autumn Mae Steele, of South Garden Ave. in Burlington, Iowa, was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital on Tuesday.

The shooting happened as Officer Jesse Hill responded with colleagues to a domestic dispute call at 10:25am local time, according to a press release from the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. Hill reportedly fired his gun twice, with one round hitting Steele in the chest, the other in the middle of her torso.’

Hill, who has been on the force since August 2013, reportedly sustained a dog bite, and was released from hospital shortly after receiving treatment

According to witnesses speaking to local newspaper The Hawk Eye, Hill was trying to break up an argument between the couple when their German Shepherd approached, startling him to the point that he fell down in the snow and kept on shooting, hitting Steele in the process’

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