Deputy Zach Hubbard came to Tate Drive in Auxvasse, Missouri, on July 14, 2026, to arrest a carjacking suspect. By his account, the trouble started as soon as he stepped out of his vehicle: an aggressive dog approached him.
He used pepper spray first. It worked, he said, only briefly. When the dog returned, Hubbard shot it dead, saying it posed an immediate threat.
Every detail of that encounter comes from the deputy's account and from body-camera footage — footage the Callaway County Sheriff's Office released only after backlash built online, and released in edited form. The public has seen the version of the video the department chose to show, cut the way the department chose to cut it.
About the dog itself, the record says almost nothing. No name appears in the reporting. No breed. No owner. The animal exists in the official record only as the aggressive dog of the deputy's description, and then as the animal he killed.
It is true, and worth stating plainly, that by his account Hubbard reached for a less-lethal option before the gun. That sequence — spray first, shoot second — is part of the record. It is also part of the record that the sequence rests on his own account and on edited footage.
The man the warrant named was arrested later that evening. The warrant service, in other words, succeeded. The dog was the only reported casualty of it.
Then came the accountability decision, and it can be stated in full: no further investigation is planned.
Not a review that quietly cleared the deputy. Not an internal file that closed months later. The Callaway County Sheriff's Office does not plan to investigate further at all. Deputy Zach Hubbard's account of the shooting — the approach, the spray, the return, the immediate threat — is not slated to be tested by any inquiry. No discipline was reported. The footage that might answer questions exists in full somewhere, but the public has the edited cut, and the department has closed the matter. A dog with no recorded name is dead, and for Callaway County, it ends there.