Highly decorated Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell received a measure of justice on Friday when a jury sentenced the two men who shot and killed his yellow Lab DASY to prison time (h/t The Blaze).
Luttrell is the lone surviving member of a SEAL team that encountered an insurgent attack in Afghanistan. DASY’s name was an acronym of the initials of the team members who were killed in the firefight.
In video clip at the left, Luttrell, who was a guest on the now-defunct Glenn Beck Show, can be heard telling his host during a heart-wrenching interview, “I consider that dog like a daughter to me.”
Luttrell was at his home in Walker County, Alabama, on an evening in April of 2009 when, according to papers filed with the court, he
heard a single gunshot, grabbed his pistol and ran next door to his mother’s residence to check on her. He then made his way down to the roadway, crawled underneath a fence and saw DASY had been shot.
In his testimony during the trial of Alfonso Hernandez, one of two men accused in the case, Luttrell said, “I saw my dog in a ditch and two men standing outside the car. I could hear them laughing.”
Hernandez was not laughing on Friday, when he was found guilty of a state felony. The second suspect, Michael Edmonds, pleaded guilty to the same state charge two days earlier, admitting the he pulled the trigger, delivering the fatal shot.
The two men sped away from the scene in a car, but police eventually caught up to them with Luttrell’s help. “I wanted to take a shot at the driver,” he is quoted as saying, “but I figured if I missed and shot out the back window, I would not be able to catch them.
Edmonds and Hernandez will have to await a pre-sentence investigation to be concluded before a punishment is handed down. That is expected to take place in February. The charges carry a maximum sentence of up to two years in a state facility and a $10,000 fine.
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