‘He likely saved lives’: Dog dies stopping home invasion, biting 1 intruder later found bleeding on a neighbor’s porch

Left: "Tank," the dog that prosecutors say died stopping a 2022 home invasion. Right: Raekwon Davante Richardson (Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office).

Left: “Tank,” the dog that prosecutors say died stopping a 2022 home invasion. Right: Raekwon Davante Richardson (Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office).

A 27-year-old man in South Carolina will spend the remainder of his days behind bars after his attempted home invasion was thwarted by a heroic dog, leaving him wounded and easily caught by authorities. Spartanburg County Circuit Court Judge R. Keith Kelly on Friday ordered Raekwon Davante Richardson to serve life in a state correctional facility without parole over the botched robbery that left Richardson injured.

Prosecutors said the dog, named “Tank,” likely “saved lives.” Unfortunately, he was killed by Richardson and his accomplices, who shot the animal multiple times as he was defending the family’s home.

Kelly handed down the sentence after a jury found Richardson guilty on counts of first-degree burglary and attempted armed robbery earlier this month

According to a news release from the Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office, Richardson and three other men in the predawn hours of Oct. 25, 2022, approached a home on Georgia Street in Clifton, South Carolina, and began banging on the door. The homeowner, his fiancee, and their infant child all awoke to the commotion coming from the front of the home.

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