 Salma Hayek Cops Say Neighbor Had Right to Shoot Dog 
 
 Salma Hayek: Cops Say Neighbor Had Right to Shoot Dog 
 
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 Salma Hayek's beloved dog was shot and killed by a neighbor, TMZ has learned, and cops have closed the case because the dog was trespassing on his property. YELM, Wash. (KOMO) -- The Thurston County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting death of a pet dog owned by actress Salma Hayek. According to Lt. Cliff Ziesemer with the Sheriff's Office, groundskeeper Jody Littlejohn was on horseback when she took Hayek's two dogs out for run that day. As we reported, Salma's 9-year-old dog, Mozart, was found dead last week at her Washington state ranch. It is unclear whether Mozart ran onto someone else's property, but Ziesemer believes the dog may have, and was shot with a pellet gun by the property owner. "I haven't posted for a week as I been mourning the death of my dog, Mozart who I personally delivered out of his mother's womb," the 49-year-old actress wrote.
– Salma Hayek had hoped cops would track down the person who shot and killed her dog in mid-February at her ranch in Washington state, and they did—but it looks like there won't be any charges. A neighbor of Hayek's has confessed to shooting 9-year-old Mozart with a pellet gun, per TMZ, but police have already closed the case because the neighbor says he shot the pellet gun just to scare Hayek's dogs off his property. He says her dogs are a constant nuisance on his land and that they attack his own dogs. An officer with the Thurston County Sheriff's Office tells WJLA that the fatal pellet-gun shot was a "fluke" that normally wouldn't kill a dog. An autopsy showed that the bullet cut into one of Mozart's arteries and that he "slowly bled to death internally," he says, per KIRO 7. (A veteran demanded a military burial for his service dog, who was shot and killed by a cyclist.)