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Victoria police ‘appealing for calm’ after online threats in case of dog’s killing

Victoria police say they are “appealing for calm” in the case of a dog killed Monday outside a Hillside Avenue apartment. Brandon Norman Bartlett, 39, has been charged in the dog’s death and remains in custody.
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Victoria police on the scene of an incident on Hillside Avenue on Monday, Jan. 20, 2020.

Victoria police say they are “appealing for calm” in the case of a dog killed Monday outside a Hillside Avenue apartment.

Brandon Norman Bartlett, 39, has been charged in the dog’s death and remains in custody.

Police issued their appeal after numerous social-media posts that have made threatening comments about the suspect.

The dog was taken from a residence during a break-and-enter shortly before officers were called about the dog’s death outside the Bellside Court apartments in the 1300-block of Hillside Avenue.

They arrived to find a tenant had barricaded himself in his suite. He stayed there for three hours until police deployed an Arwen, a non-lethal bean-bag gun.

The tenant was arrested and taken for both physical- and mental-health assessment.