Former Fire Official Claims Self-Defense in Puppy Killing

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RIVERSIDE - In front of a packed courtroom audience Thursday, Glynn Johnson took the witness stand and said he was defending himself when he repeatedly pounded his neighbor's dog in the head with a large rock, killing it.

Prosecutors accuse Johnson, a career firefighter who once supervised fire stations in Pomona and Diamond Bar, of attacking the puppy after years of increasingly tense disputes with his next-door neighbors about their pets.

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Former Fire Official Claims Self-Defense in Puppy Killing

On the witness stand in Riverside Superior Court, Johnson, 55, denied that he was angry when he saw his neighbor's dog wandering in the...

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