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This undated photo shows Alfred, a dog owned by the Yeager family, in the backyard of the family's home near Murphy High School in Mobile, Ala. Alfred was fatally shot by a police officer who was searching for a trespassing suspect on Friday, March 14, 2014. (Courtesy of Lynn Yeager)

Mobile Police Officer Kevin Kelly searches a suspect who was arrested on an outstanding warrant in the Roger Williams public housing project Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. (Press-Register file photo)

MOBILE, Alabama -- On Monday afternoon police revealed the officer who fatally shot a family dog while police were searching for a trespassing suspect near Murphy High School on Friday is the same officer who was involved in a February shooting.

Officer Kevin Kelly, a six-year veteran of the department, was found justified in the shooting of 23-year-old Shawn Ephisian Taylor, who suffered a single wound to his buttocks following a confrontation with Kelly.

On Friday, Kelly walked into the backyard of a home on Clearmont Street in an attempt to find suspects who were accused of trespassing and running from police, said Mobile Police Department spokeswoman Ashley Rains.

Confronted by two dogs, Kelly fatally shot one dog and injured another while their owners, Lynn and Mark Yeager, watched from inside the house. The Yeager family, who has lived in their home on Clearmont Street for 22 years, had recently finished renovations to their home necessitated by the 2012 Christmas Day tornado.

"It was awful," said Lynn Yeager, who noted that she had not seen the officer before. "My feeling is, they could have knocked on the door."

At the time, Rains said police were not sure whether or not the suspects were armed.

"My husband and I both understand that they were trying to do their job," Lynn Yeager said.

She said she can understand an officer reacting "in the heat of the moment," but she and her husband are now worried about the safety of citizens.

"When you think about it, children could've been back there," she said. "We could've been back there."

She said the dogs, Alfred and Bovidea, were sleeping on the porch when Kelly walked into the backyard. She said the dogs ran up to the officer, barking as most dogs do when they don't recognize a stranger.

Kelly pulled out his gun and got off two shots, one killing Alfred and a second which struck Bovidea in his ear.

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.