SCARY: Boy Steals Gun Then Shoots Neighbor's Dog for Barking

He's accused of stealing a rifle from one neighbor and then using it to shoot another neighbor's dog. And he's only eleven years old.

Spotsylvania Virginia County Sheriff's Department was called to investigate the shooting of a German Sheppard on Monday. The dog's owner told deputies he heard a gunshot and went to investigate.

He found his dog on the front porch bleeding with a wound to the neck. The home is located off a private road in a rural part of the county, and deputies say they have never responded to a complaint in that area before.

Investigators spent the day talking with other neighbors, some who say they heard the shot, while animal control officers rushed the dog to a nearby veterinarian clinic.

Later that evening, one of the neighbors who had said she had heard the gunshot, called the Sheriff's Department to report finding a rifle in her backyard.

When deputies arrived she told them she had already questioned her eleven year old son who admitted to her he shot the dog because it had been keeping him awake at night.