Police Told Her to Secure Her Dog. Then an LAPD Officer Shot Him Dead.

Jameson was two years old, a Saint Bernard–Golden Retriever–Doodle mix. On the night of June 14, 2026, during a celebration of the Knicks' championship, someone called 911 to report a "screaming woman" at an apartment on Jordan Avenue in Canoga Park. Los Angeles police officers responded, and found Jameson there with his owner.

The call that brought them was about a person, not a dog — and the reporting does not say what, if anything, officers found regarding the screaming they had been sent to check on. What the record does say is that Jameson was barking, and that his owner was cooperative: the officers told her to secure the dog, and the door closed. What happened next comes from the police: the door reopened, they say, Jameson came out and charged an officer, and the officer shot him dead.

The police account of that charge is the only account of it in the record. What is beyond dispute is the response the shooting set off. Protesters gathered outside LAPD headquarters. A GoFundMe raised nearly $200,000. And LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell ordered a comprehensive review of the incident.

The officer who fired has not been named. The LAPD withheld the name, citing threats.

That decision may address a real safety concern, but it also forecloses something the public normally gets: the ability to attach this shooting to a person. A dog is dead after a 911 call that his owner is described as having cooperated with, and the officer responsible is, as far as the public record goes, anonymous. Whatever the comprehensive review concludes, the people the department serves cannot connect its conclusion to a name, and cannot follow that officer from this incident to any future one.

So the accountability record, as of the reporting, consists of the review itself. No discipline was reported. No findings were released. The department whose officer shot Jameson is the same department reviewing the shooting, on a timetable the record does not give, about an officer the record does not name. The protests outside headquarters and the nearly $200,000 raised online are a measure of what the public thought of that arrangement — the review, so far, is the only measure of what the department did about it.