They rescued a dog from death. Three years later, he died saving their lives in a shooting.
Zero, a Great Pyrenees, was shot and killed while defending his family from a gunman who opened fire at a birthday party. By Reis Thebault Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email Bio Follow March 25 at 11:00 PM They say the first thing Zero saved was himself.
“We were meant to find him,” she said in an interview. “And what he did was what he was meant to do. That’s the only thought making it any better.” It’s Martinez who likes to say that Zero saved his own life. But really, it was her — and her large family — that rescued him when he needed it most. A few years later, Zero did the same for them.
“None of us knew he had a gun,” Martinez said, recounting the years Castaneda played on her sons’ football teams and slept over at her house. Castaneda shot Zero in the ear, she said, then hit her stepdaughter twice in the back. Zero pounced a final time before taking another bullet in the stomach. Martinez ran toward her dog and Castaneda shot her in the leg and fled.
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