Stoneham police are looking for the driver who struck and killed a pug in February, the department told NBC-10 in Boston.
The incident happened on Feb. 21 on Spring Street when the pug, named Bella, was hit by a truck in front of her house while going for a walk on a “very short leash” with her owner, the media outlet reported.
The sidewalks were covered in snow and ice.
“It’s really sad news,” Maria Palacio, a neighbor of the family who owned Bella told WHDH-TV. “I mean, we have dogs too and it’s sad news. They’re just a couple of doors down, so it’s very tragic.”
Stoneham Animal Control said on Facebook that the vehicle that hit Bella was a two-door white pickup truck. Police told NBC-10 in Boston that the truck could be a Chevrolet with no carriage, driven by a man in his 30s.
“It really doesn’t look like the operator of this pickup truck was doing anything crazy, it looks like he was just driving normally,” Detective Sergeant Christopher Dalis told the media outlet. “If you’re watching this, reach out to us, come talk to us, make yourself known, and that way we can give this family closure on what happened to their pet.”
