An Officer Fired Two Shots at a Dog on Market Street. One Hit Its Owner.

It started with a dog bite. On November 9, 2025, near 4th and Market streets in San Francisco, an unleashed husky mix bit a skateboarder. Officers moved in to arrest the dog's owner, Trusten Eaton.

Police said the dog charged Officer Joseph Toomey. Toomey fired two rounds. One hit the dog in the shoulder. The other struck Eaton in the left leg.

The dog survived. So did Eaton. Then the paperwork sorted out who would face consequences: Eaton was booked on charges including resisting arrest and unleashed-dog violations.

It is worth stating the arithmetic plainly. Officer Toomey fired two bullets at a dog on a downtown San Francisco street. Half of them hit a human being. And the human being he shot is the person who was booked.

The claim that the dog charged is the police account of the moment, and it remains an attributed account — the public record here contains no competing version, but it contains no independent confirmation either. What the record does establish without dispute is the outcome of the two rounds: a wounded dog and a wounded man.

The record establishes one more thing about Officer Toomey. The shooting triggered an officer-involved-shooting investigation — and it is his second officer-involved shooting since 2020.

The accountability record

An officer-involved-shooting investigation is open. No findings have been reported. No discipline has been reported. Officer Toomey was named, which is more transparency than many of these cases receive, but a name is not an outcome.

So the ledger on Market Street currently reads as follows. A man was shot in the leg by a police officer's bullet and booked on charges. A dog was shot in the shoulder. The officer who fired both rounds is the subject of an internal investigation, his second since 2020, with no reported result from this one and nothing in this record showing what, if anything, came of the first. Whether San Francisco's officer-involved-shooting process produces any public accounting for the two rounds fired at 4th and Market — or whether it closes quietly, the way the absence of any reported findings suggests these inquiries can — is the only accountability question still open. As of the most recent reporting, the man Toomey wounded faced charges, and Toomey faced a process with no reported end.