Charges will be filed against the woman they believe left a dog in a parked car for seven hours Wednesday at the Trussville Walmart, ABC 33/40 reports.
Trussville Police Department’s Lt. Phil Dillon told ABC 33/40 an unidentified woman parked in the Walmart parking lot around 4 a.m. Wednesday, leaving the dog in the vehicle with the windows up.
Per WBRC, authorities were alerted around 11 a.m. after multiple people noticed there was a dog left in the sweltering heat.
Dillon said Trussville Police Department’s policy is to locate the owner before any action is made. Walmart employees attempted to page the vehicle’s owner, but never heard anything, says the WBRC report.
Police eventually busted out a window in attempt to save the dog, but the news station says the dog died soon after, despite being treated immediately with water.
The woman, reportedly not an employee at Walmart, offered no explanation to police as to why she was inside the store for such a long time, but Dillon told WBRC charges will be filed.
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