On May 12th Fred Trapp, age 38, shot his dog in the backyard. The weapon was an unremarkable 9 mm Glock, discharged only once. The dog was a three year-old Labrador/Irish Setter mix, a female named Sammie, who had lived with the Trapp family for just over eighteen months. She was killed instantly. It being a weekday the two Trapp children, Argus and Mia, were away at school and most of the neighbors were at work, leaving few in the area to hear the gun’s report. However, Mara White, the elderly mother of Trapp’s next door neighbor, was visiting that day, and called the Avondale police to report the gunfire next door.
