Border Patrol agents showed up at a quiet home on a fall morning just after dawn looking for undocumented immigrants. They said they had surveilled the house for days.

Instead, an agent shot and killed the family dog.

More than two months after the shooting the homeowner, 26, is waiting for answers and demanding accountability for why his beloved seven-year-old Rottweiler was slain Sept. 9, in El Paso’s tree-lined Upper Valley.

The dog’s owner does not want his name used for privacy reasons. His attorney said he was cooperative when agents arrived and told him they were investigating a tip regarding “alien smuggling at the residence,” something the homeowner denied.

“He told agents they could come in,” said Marisa Ong, the family’s attorney, who works with the national law firm, Single

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