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Man with BB gun shoots two golden retrievers, killing one
Police in South Florida are searching for a man who shot two dogs with a BB gun, leaving one of them..

- Police in South Florida are searching for a man who shot two dogs with a BB gun, leaving one of them dead
- On December 3, an unidentified man entered the yard of a home in the Pasadena Lakes section of Pembroke Pines
- The man shot two golden retrievers, Madie and Max, with steel BBs
- According to local police, surveillance video showed Madie, the female dog, dying in a pool of blood in a corner of the yard after she was shot
- Max, the male dog, survived but was found with a bloody wound in the middle of his left side
By Ariel Zilber For Dailymail.com
Published: 19:18 EST, 21 December 2017 | Updated: 20:22 EST, 21 December 2017
Police in South Florida are searching for a man who shot two dogs with a BB gun, leaving one of them dead, it was reported on Thursday.
On December 3, an unidentified man entered the yard of a home in the Pasadena Lakes section of Pembroke Pines.
The man shot two golden retrievers, Madie and Max, with steel BBs, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
According to local police, surveillance video showed Madie, the female dog, dying in a pool of blood in a corner of the yard after she was shot.
Max, the male dog, survived but was found with a bloody wound in the middle of his left side, not far from the spot where Madie was shot.
Police in South Florida are searching for a man who shot two dogs with a BB gun, leaving one of them dead
On December 3, an unidentified man entered the yard of a home in the Pasadena Lakes section of Pembroke Pines
According to local police, surveillance video showed Madie, the female dog, dying in a pool of blood in a corner of the yard after she was shot
Madie is seen above in a file photo provided by her owners. Police believe that the dogs were sleeping in their yard moments before they were shot
Police said that surveillance video from neighbors shows a man carrying what appears to be a BB gun walking away from the scene about two hours after the shooting
Investigators believe that the shooter deliberately targeted the dogs and was familiar with them
Investigators believe the shooter aimed for the dogs' hearts before pulling the trigger.
Police believe that the dogs were sleeping in their yard moments before they were shot.
Madie died just before 8pm.
Police said that surveillance video from neighbors shows a man carrying what appears to be a BB gun walking away from the scene about two hours after the shooting.
Max, 7, recovered from his wound, but his life could still be in danger. 'He has a fragment in him right now that's close to his aorta that the vet is concerned about,' Mione said
Investigators believe that the shooter deliberately targeted the dogs and was familiar with them.
'It's deeply affected us, my children, my ex-wife, just me personally – it's been very sad around the house these last couple of weeks since the dog has been gone,' said Charles Mione, the dogs' owner.
'It was a 10 year-old golden retriever. I had her since she was a pup and she was taken away from me.'
Max, 7, recovered from his wound, but his life could still be in danger.
'He has a fragment in him right now that's close to his aorta that the vet is concerned about,' Mione said.
'And maybe one day I come home and he may not be with us anymore. That's a risk right now.'
After an autopsy was performed on Madie, a second BB fragment was discovered in her body, leading investigators to believe that she had been shot before the December 3 incident.
Police are asking for the public's help in locating the unidentified man with the BB gun. The surveillance image above shows the home of the dog owners on the night of the shootings
Apparently the long hair on her body concealed the wound which healed on its own.
In October, Madie was taken to the vet after falling ill. The vet believed at the time that she had been poisoned.
Mione said that the family is extremely pained by Madie's loss.
Max has been heard crying and yelping in Madie's absence. The incident has so traumatized him that he now hesitates to go outside.
This is the second high-profile instance of cruelty toward animals in South Florida in recent months.
In October, a pit bull puppy was beaten and stabbed before being stuffed in a suitcase and left to die.
Police in Hollywood, Florida, heard crying coming from a blue suitcase in an abandoned building at around 1am on October 10.
Inside, they found the bloody dog with deep cuts on his head and body.
They took the dog to an animal hospital for treatment and named him Ollie.
Ollie eventually suffered cardiac arrest and died.
Police later arrested Brendan Evans, 31, who is facing 17 counts of aggravated animal cruelty.
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Saudi women in Sydney: Sisters’ bodies lay undiscovered for a month

Australian police are baffled after the bodies of two Saudi women, believed to have lain undiscovered for a month, were found in a Sydney apartment.
Sisters Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were found dead on 7 June in separate beds at home in the suburb of Canterbury.
Police, who were called to the property for a welfare check, said the women are believed to have died in early May.
But despite “extensive inquiries”, they still do not know how or why.
The sisters moved to Australia from Saudi Arabia in 2017 and may have sought asylum, The Sydney Morning Herald reported. Police refused to confirm this, saying they do not comment on residential status.
A human rights organisation said it should be established whether the women fled Saudi Arabia because of domestic violence or harsh laws governing women. However, there is no evidence this is the case.
Police said they had been in contact with the women’s family, which is assisting them with inquiries.
Lina al-Hathloul, head of monitoring and communications at Saudi human rights organisation ALQST, said it “would not be the first case” of Saudi women who were killed abroad after fleeing domestic violence.
“There are no protections for women who are victims of domestic violence in Saudi Arabia, so they flee abroad,” she told the BBC.
She added: “I’m not saying that is the case here, just that we need a thorough investigation. It is frustrating not to have any information.”
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, there had been signs that something was wrong.
Last year, the women told their building manager they thought someone was tampering with their food deliveries, the paper reported.
A plumber who visited the apartment also said he believed there was “something mysterious” going on, and that police had been called in the past over concerns for the women.
New South Wales Police issued a renewed plea to the public on Wednesday, saying “any piece of information” could be the key to solving this case.
The local community is close-knit, police said in a statement, asking anyone who may have known or seen the women to come forward.
A report from Australian current affairs programme Four Corners in 2019 found 80 Saudi women had tried to seek asylum in Australia in recent years. Many of them were fleeing male guardianship laws.
Read from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62331116
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Scott Morrison effectively ditches his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption commission

Scott Morrison has effectively abandoned his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog, confirming he would only proceed with legislation in the new parliament if Labor agreed to pass the Coalition’s heavily criticised proposal without amendments.
Morrison pledged before the 2019 election to legislate a federal integrity body in the parliamentary term that has just ended. The prime minister broke that promise, failing to introduce his own proposal before the 46th parliament was prorogued.
On the hustings on Wednesday, Morrison was asked – given his previous undertaking to create the body – whether he would promise to put his proposal to a vote in the next parliament in the event the Coalition won the 21 May election.
Morrison declined to make that promise. “Our position on this hasn’t changed,” the prime minister said. “Our view has been the same – when the Labor party is prepared to support that legislation in that form, then we will proceed with it.”
The prime minister has attempted to inoculate himself from criticism about breaking an election promise by saying he tabled the integrity commission proposal in the parliament.
Tabling an exposure draft, which is what the prime minister did, is not the same as introducing finished legislation to the House of Representatives or the Senate that is then debated and voted on.
As well as repeatedly fudging what happened in parliament, Morrison has also created the impression the proposal can only proceed if Labor agrees to its passage without amendments.
All governments routinely introduce legislation for debate without any undertaking that it will be passed by the opposition. Labor favours a stronger model than the Coalition’s proposal.
Morrison’s lack of urgency on the issue created tensions within government ranks. Late last year, the Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor to support independent MP Helen Haines’ bill to establish a federal integrity commission. Archer accused the government of “inertia” over the issue.
At that time, Archer said she was “perplexed” at her own government’s failure to release a revised bill almost three years after it was promised before the last election.
While Morrison clearly wants to move on from the issue, he will face renewed pressure from crossbench independents if the coming election is close enough to deliver a hung parliament.
A number of independents running against Liberals in metropolitan seats have made it clear that establishing a credible national integrity commission will be a key demand in the event any new government – Liberal or Labor – is seeking agreements for confidence and supply.
Haines blasted Morrison’s comments on Wednesday. “Mr Morrison broke an election promise to introduce an anti-corruption commission and his pathway to creating one is still as vague as it was in the last parliament,” she said.
The crossbench independent said it was “nonsense” for the prime minister to claim that he could not proceed unless Labor agreed with the Coalition’s proposal without seeking any amendments. “It would appear we are in the same void as we were before,” Haines said.
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