"You're Dead Today": Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences for Active-Duty Soldiers Who Killed Dogs with BB Gun Barrage

This video was captured in the front yard of a restaurant in Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, last summer.

Late at night, three men staying at a neighboring pension fired a barrage of BB pellets at four dogs in the yard.

The terrified dogs tried to flee into their doghouses, but the BB gun barrage continued as the men chased them.

Prosecutors have requested prison sentences for three individuals in their 20s who trespassed into the yard of a restaurant in Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, last year and fired thousands of BB pellets at three dogs.

During the final hearing held on July 3 at the Busan District Court's Eastern Branch, presided over by Judge Kim Eun-soo of the 5th Criminal Division, prosecutors requested a two-year prison sentence for each of the two defendants, identified as A and B, and a one-year-and-six-month sentence for defendant C, who were all charged with special destruction of property and other offenses.

Among them, B and C were active-duty soldiers at the time of the crime.

They are accused of trespassing into the restaurant yard in Ilun-myeon around 1:00 a.m. on June 8 last year and firing thousands of BB pellets at three pet dogs.

CCTV footage installed at the scene clearly captured them firing BB pellets at the dogs for 37 minutes.

They even filmed the process themselves, and the video contains their voices saying, "Shoot the forehead, the forehead," and "You're dead today."

The injuries to the dogs were devastating.

A 7-year-old dog named Somsomi was transported to a hospital covered in bruises but eventually died.

Another dog, Maehwa, had to have one of its eyes removed, and a third dog, Kkae, showed abnormal symptoms before dying this past May.

Following the incident, the owner claimed that they were asked by the perpetrators' military unit not to make the matter public and that they received threatening remarks from the perpetrators' parents, which sparked significant public outrage.

The court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on August 18.

Reported by Kim Jiuk | Video by Kim Bok-hyung | Graphics by Lee Jung-ju | Produced by SBS Digital News
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