17 year old Pennsylvania boy shoots dog

Shooting pets is not something we write about often. But this Pittsburgh area boy shot a dog outside of his home:

Witnesses said a young man walked up and shot Wolfie while the dog was in his front yard at a home on Marshall Avenue on Saturday.

"I heard a dog 'yelp,' and I immediately knew someone had shot a dog," neighbor Frank Wells said. "It's awful. It's animal cruelty. Anyone who would shoot a dog -- I suppose for spite -- I mean, it's a friendly dog."

"He was bleeding from his chest. There's a fair amount of blood. You can track it all the way back here, so he lost a fair amount of blood," he said.

Police found a 9 mm shell casing at the scene and have since charged a 17-year-old boy with firearms violations and cruelty to animals.

Police said the boy, who has not been publicly identified because he’s a juvenile, lives at a halfway house and is allowed to leave on the weekends.

What was a boy who lives in a halfway house doing with a gun? Every gun in the hands of a child or teen must first pass through the hands of an adult.