The shooting was captured on a LaGrange police officer's dashboard camera, released to Mays and later posted to YouTube. Several versions of the video have been uploaded; they show two officers approach the dog, untie it from a mobile home, and hold it with a snarepole before one officer shoots the dog twice.

The officers were responding to a neighbor's call to police that Cammie was running loose a few blocks from Mays' home and growled at her child, according to a report in the Hannibal Courier-Post.

The lawsuit says Cammie was in heat and broke free from her chain at Mays' home. Schottel said there were no prior vicious dog complaints made about Cammie.

However, Howell testified in a June 2010 ordinance violation hearing that Cammie was a vicious animal that growled as he tried to put it in a truck and charged at him as he tried to subdue the dog, the Courier-Post reported.