A despondent military veteran – slated for eviction because of his service dogs named Roxie and Ranger – was shot to death after he pointed a gun at officers on Monday afternoon in Homestead.

Raymond Bishop, 84, died outside his home at the Hidden Grove apartments, which is subsidized by Miami-Dade County’s housing authority. At least four Miami-Dade officers opened fire.

Miami-Dade police officers rushed to the home Monday afternoon after receiving a call of a man threatening to kill himself. According to law enforcement sources, police pleaded with Bishop to put the gun down before opening fire.

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Bishop was fighting his eviction from the Hidden Grove apartment complex, which went to court in July 2017 to try and get him booted from his ground-floor unit at 13831 SW 270th Street.

According to the lawsuit, Bishop was “harboring unauthorized pet dogs,” allowing them out without a leash. One of them, the suit said, attacked and injured another resident, according to the suit.

His animals were a 13-pound pooch named Roxie, and a 30-pound one named Ranger.

A psychiatrist at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center said the dogs and pet had a “tremendously favorable influence” on Bishop.

“Mr. Bishop’s pets, in this case, has provided invaluable emotional therapeutic benefit,” Dr. Ernesto Grenier wrote in a letter filed in the court record.

The case had been in mediation, but talks between the two sides had failed, according to the court record.