Andrea Rosebrock 
Update 7/13/09 – Dog Killing FBI Agent Gets a “Slap on the Wrist” VIDEO
Sassy was just a 3 lb Chihuahua, walking on Estes Road near Lorena in TX when her life was cut short by an FBI sniper with a pellet gun. Jason Davis had the hard task of telling his 8 yr old daughter that her little dog would not becoming home.
Cyndi Mitchell, who lives across the street from FBI agent, Lovett Leslie Ledger, told authorities that she witnessed Ledger shoot the dog in front of her house with a pellet rifle on Feb. 29.
Mitchell has said that her dogs were barking and she went to the door and saw Sassy walking on Estes Road in front of her house.
The dog lurched to one side upon being shot, then rolled into a yard where she died, she has said.
“I’ve never heard a noise like that from an animal,” Mitchell said, describing it as “a screaming sound.”
As neighbors gathered around the fallen dog, Ledger took the pellet gun, turned and walked inside his house with one of his children.
Initially when confronted by authorities about the crime, Ledger lied but changed his story when witnesses came forward.
Yesterday a McLennan County grand jury indicted 39-year-old Lovett Leslie Ledger Jr. for cruelty to animals, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail and a $10,000 fine.
Ledger, a sniper and member of the FBI SWAT team, remains on active duty during criminal and FBI internal investigation.
“The FBI continues to cooperate with the ongoing judicial process involving Agent Ledger and the internal FBI review of Agent Ledger’s actions also is still ongoing,” Erik Vasys, an FBI spokesman in San Antonio, said, declining additional comment.
A police reports states that Ledger told witnesses that he shot the dog with a pump BB-pellet gun and must have pumped the gun too much.
There were no reasons given why Ledger shot the little dog but he did spend 25 minute testifying before the grand jury yesterday. Shortly thereafter the indictment was handed down. If convicted of felony animal cruelty, Ledgers’s career with the FBI would be at an end.
Good now hang the SOB what kind of person are you mister FBI man a heartless one in fact …. you need to pay and pay dearly for this crime and you will what goes around comes around…. you seemed to not be able to live in peace any more with out some kind of low life wnating to kill some thing. These kind of people need to pay looks like the FBI need to tune up the profile of who is there working for them. He’s gulty so why not send him to jail not where he’ll be put under protection let him in with the reg. jail and the men have at him … I’m tired of scum like this he thought he was above the law now it’s going to bite you in the ass scum bag…. wonder what this low life does to kids if he done this to little dog… I don’t care if the dog shit in your yard grow up and human …. I have the rope and the tree any want to kick tyhe stand out from under this guy….
Katrina…..u said it just right……lol…i’d love 2 kick that stand out from under him
Today this still haunts me about how they said the little screamed…. yes they do as I have a little Chi… and every time I come home she doesn’t bark she’ll scream like to say “Mons home yepea..”…. this little pup at least she is in a good place now …. my tears still flow for the little one ……. I just want a moment with this guy in my hands…
WHY?What in the world was going through this person’s mind??Shit in the yard..I guess…Oh come on!!How big of a problem could it have been??It was a 3 pound Chihuahua!!Break the heart of an 8 year old over a piece of shit??!!And the poor Chi…WTF!!
Another neighbor shot the dog story…I don’t know about you guys, but I would,and will, completely loose my mind on someone if they shoot,hurt,any animal in my presence!!…Animal abusers are nothing more than pathetic cowards!!!I’m not making any kind of jab at the poor neighbors that had to witness this barbaric act…I would just simply freak out..Beyond my control freak out..I would freak on any form of cowardly abuse..dog,cat,kid,elderly person,etc..I cannot stand bullies and cowards!!Pathetic!!Pick on something that can fight back back!!Wimps!!
If this is one of the guys who is supposed to be on “our side”, God help us all! I hope he gets kicked out of the FBI with loss of all benefits, as well as a stint in jail!