Cop shoots pit bull on South Side

YOUNGSTOWN — A city police officer used her service revolver to shoot an aggressive pit bull dog in the leg before the dog was captured by a deputy Mahoning County dog warden on the city’s South Side.

Officer Dorothy Johnson unholstered her gun and shot the dog, which was standing at Indianola and Idlewood avenues shortly after 1 p.m. Sunday, after she said it growled and charged at her with its teeth showing as the deputy dog warden tried to catch the animal with a noose. Police and Jason Goist, deputy dog warden, were in the area responding to complaints that the dog was chasing people. Goist left a notice of the incident at a residence in the 2700 block of Hudson Avenue, where he caught and caged the wounded animal on the porch and where neighbors said the dog’s owner lives.