Fifi was a service dog, trained through Healing 4 Heroes and belonging to Calvin Willis. On July 8, 2026, a Cobb County sheriff's deputy came to a residence in Powder Springs, Georgia, to serve an arrest warrant. Willis was not the person the warrant named.
Body-camera video shows what happened when the deputy encountered the dog. Fifi came running from a carport toward him, barking. Within about three seconds, the deputy fired one shot. It was fatal.
About three seconds is the entire span the body camera documents between a dog running toward a deputy and a dog shot dead. The reporting describes no bite and no contact — a dog running and barking, and then the shot.
The warrant was for someone else. The man who lost his service dog that day was not accused of anything; he was simply the owner of an animal that ran toward a deputy at the wrong moment, at a home the deputy had come to on other business.
And Fifi was not only a pet. A service dog trained through an organization like Healing 4 Heroes is a working animal — an accommodation, a piece of someone's daily functioning. That is what a single shot, fired within about three seconds of the encounter beginning, took from Calvin Willis.
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office opened an Internal Affairs investigation. The deputy, who has not been publicly named, remains employed while it proceeds. No discipline has been reported.
Meanwhile, the cost of the shooting is being carried by charity. A nonprofit is fundraising to help Willis obtain a new service dog — the community passing the hat to replace what a county deputy destroyed in about three seconds. The record reports no compensation from the county itself.
So the ledger, as of the reporting, stands like this: an open internal file, an unnamed deputy still on the job, a nonprofit's donors covering the replacement of a trained service animal, and a man who was never the target of anything left to wait — for a new dog, and for whatever conclusion, if any, Internal Affairs eventually reaches.