This is what I am starting to think as well. Had one of our K9s hit by a fragment from a ND by a watch stander dicken around with his weapon because he got bored one night. Nearly became a homicide scene as it took three of us to stop the handler from having a meet Jesus meeting with the moron.None of it makes sense to me..
If it was on a 20' leash, the officer would know who shot it or know where the shot came from.
If somebody was shooting at him, he'd call it in and it would have been a cop convention in Edmond for a few hrs.
It it was shot in the face with a muzzleloader, there probably wouldn't be much dog face left to reconstruct.
Chances the officer was dickin around with a weapon while the dog was doing its business, and he accidentally shot his own dog?