MOULTRIE — A Moultrie police officer shot a dog that was overly aggressive early Friday morning.

An officer was called to a house on Hutchinson Drive at 2:09 a.m. Friday about dogs barking. He was told by an anonymous person that one of his dogs had gotten loose from his chain and was attacking another of his dogs, which remained chained.

The officer felt the dog could turn on him or the homeowner at any moment and was not responding to commands, so he notified his supervisor of the situation. The supervisor agreed the only way to control the dog, since it was unchained and acting violently, was to shoot it.

The officer fired one shot at the dog’s hind quarters, and the dog backed away from the other dog and laid down. The dog being attacked was able to get away, running underneath the porch. The dog acting violently was able to only get up briefly before lying back down.

The Humane Society of Colquitt County took custody of the wounded dog.

Arrests:

Moultrie Police

• Calvin Tyrone Suggs, 19, of 1515 Fourth Ave. N.E., Apt. L-7, was charged Wednesday with criminal attempt to commit armed robbery. Suggs was shot during an alleged armed robbery attempt at an apartment on 26th Avenue Southeast Sept. 27.

• Melissa Latisha Thomas, 27, of 532 27th St. S.E., was charged Thursday with driving with a suspended license (third offense), a brake lights violation, giving false information to an officer and probation violation.

• Denise Amie Farrow, 31, of 526 Hinsonton Road in Meigs, was charged Thursday with theft by shoplifting.

• Glenda Lowery, 46, of 530 Hinsonton Road in Meigs, was charged Thursday with theft by shoplifting.

• David Barge, 27, of 825 E. Central Ave., was charged Thursday with cruelty to children (third degree), disorderly conduct and simple battery.

• Jimmie Darrell McCall, 47, of 1201 13th Ave. S.E., was charged Thursday with public drunkenness (third offense).

• Floyd Patterson Jr., 43, of Moultrie, was charged Thursday with public drunkenness.