Killing of Mayor's 2 Dogs Justified, Pr. George's Finds

According to the necropsy, 7-year-old Payton was shot four times, twice in the chest and twice in the head. One of the shots entered through his mouth and lodged in the back of his neck.

Four-year-old Chase was shot twice. One bullet entered the dog's back left leg, then lodged in his right back leg. The other entered his side and passed through his chest.

"The report confirms what me and my family saw, heard and lived and makes it clear the sheriff was not telling the truth," Calvo said.

He said the number of gunshot wounds to the two dogs indicates that the violence used in the raid was "unbelievably excessive."

Jackson said the department looked at each shooting in detail. The first dog was engaging officers near the front door, he said. The second was shot, he said, as it ran away from the deputy who fired and toward an officer standing in an adjacent hallway with his back turned.

Calvo said there was no way a deputy shooting from the kitchen could have seen another officer in the hallway as Jackson described. He called on the sheriff's department to release photos taken of the dogs the night of the raid, which he said will prove the point.

Calvo said he hopes an FBI investigation into the raid will examine other issues, including why officers did not know they were raiding the home of a mayor and why Prince George's police said at first that they had been given a "no knock" warrant to enter the home without announcing their presence but then said they had not.

"This doesn't speak only to our incident. It speaks to: What is standard operating policy in Prince George's county?" he said.

Calvo and his wife have meanwhile adopted a 14-month-old black Lab and named him Marshall, he said.