Dallas shooting victim reunited with dog

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The first thought for Joshua Painter was to protect his dog, Bella.Painted was shot four times while the two were out walking in Pleasant Grove on Aug. 31."I dropped, and I rolled and tried to get her up to me," Painter said.Just before 11 p.m. on Aug. 31, Dallas police said 18-year-old David Gabriel Ramirez opened fire, seemingly at random."He said, ‘do you want to die today’? I said, ‘dude, take me off your script’ and I kept walking," Painter said.Investigators said Ramirez had been drinking and had just left his house about a mile away, extremely hostile and armed with a handgun.Graphic cell phone video from the incident shows Painter bleeding on the side of Prairie Creek Road. Bella, not leaving his side.Painter and Bella reunited thanks to a strangerCharlee Croker was just a stranger from Mesquite when she first saw Painter's story.At first, she thought he was a homeless man with a white pit bull from her neighborhood so she started calling Dallas hospitals. Turns out, he wasn't.
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