Goose had been part of the family for only a few weeks. He was a hound, newly adopted, living with Chelsea Pavish and her household in Jacksonville's San Marco neighborhood. On the night of Friday, May 29, 2015, he got out through a roughly three-foot-wide opening in a fence line and into the yard next door, where an off-duty Jacksonville Sheriff's Office sergeant, his wife and his two daughters, ages 3 and 7, were swimming.

What happened in that yard comes almost entirely from police reports summarized by News4Jax (WJXT), the only news organisation that has reported this shooting. No independent account of the incident was located.

According to those reports as described by News4Jax, the sergeant said Goose circled the pool with "an aggressive disposition." He said he grabbed a rake to scare the dog off, a tactic he told police had worked before, but that this time the dog would not back down. The reports say he told his family to get into the pool, went inside, and returned with his personal Glock 27 .40-caliber handgun loaded with JSO-issued duty rounds. He told police he picked up the rake again, slipped in soft dirt, lost his balance and fell, and that Goose lunged toward him. He fired a single shot at the dog's head. Goose died at St. Francis Animal Hospital.

Pavish, 23, disputes the picture of a dangerous animal. She showed News4Jax the spot by a side ladder where Goose was shot. "I don't believe he ever tried to be aggressive," she told the outlet. "If Goose was scared, he would have run away. I think the fact that he time to go inside and grab a gun, and the fact that he left his family in the pool while he went to get the gun just doesn't add up." She also told News4Jax that the sergeant had recently removed a palm tree and had not replaced that portion of fence — the gap Goose came through.

"It just felt like it wasn't real," she said. "If a dog dies because it's sick, it's a different experience. I'm just wrapping my head around the way he died."

Pavish said she now keeps her surviving dog out of the backyard. "It's been awful," she told News4Jax. "I can't let my other dog into the backyard, and it could happen again."

She asked the Sheriff's Office to conduct an internal investigation, saying she did not believe her dog was threatening. A JSO spokesperson told News4Jax that under Florida law a registered gun owner has the right to kill an animal if the person fears for his or her life or is in danger — an answer about what the law permits, not about what the agency reviewed. News4Jax said it went to the sergeant's home for his side and no one answered, and that the Sheriff's Office afterward emailed the station asking news media not to approach the property.

No internal finding was reported. No discipline was reported. One newsroom asked the questions, and no other has since.