A Seattle woman is hoping for justice after she said someone shot and killed her dog at a cemetery earlier this month.
It happened at Evergreen Washelli Cemetery, near graves east of Aurora Avenue, on December 17.
Julia Einarsson told KIRO 7 she was finishing up a walk with her dog Remy and was nearly back to her car, when Remy was spooked by a coyote and a large group of people gathering by a grave. He started barking. She says she pulled him behind her car and tried to get him inside.
“I had him between my knees to hold him back, and he backed out of his harness and then ran around the car and barked at the family,” she said. “Scared the family.”
Einarsson said Remy didn’t bite anyone but ran by them, and then barked at them from a few feet away. She said she told the group of people to “please get into their car.” All of them did, she said, except for one man.
“I asked him a few times to get into the car, but he wouldn’t get in,” she said.
Einarsson said the man was trying to make Remy stop barking. She said she put her body between Remy and the man, but the man walked around her.
Moments later, Einarsson said the man walked over to his car and pulled a gun out of his jacket and fired at Remy.
“He repeated several times, ‘I’m very sorry, I’m very sorry. Do you want me to call the police?’” Einarsson said. “I said ‘I don’t even know what to do I just need to get my dog to the emergency room.’”
She rushed off to get her dog help, and never saw the man again. Remy died about an hour later.
Now, Einarsson is grieving an irreplaceable loss.
“I talk to [Remy] every day,” she said. “I tell him that I’m sorry that I couldn’t save him.”
Einarsson had Remy for about two and a half years, rescuing him after he was found on the streets and moved from shelter to shelter.
“He was so smart and so sweet, so sweet,” she said. “The people he loved, he was just absolutely all in. He was amazing.”
She’s come back to the site several times, including with an officer from Seattle Police.
“I’ve come back a few times,” she said. “I just… I can’t avoid it. I want to honor Remy so that’s why I come back.”
Seattle Police confirmed to KIRO 7 they are investigating the incident and located a shell casing on scene.
If anyone has any information about a large group that was visiting a grave on the east side of the cemetery on December 17, they can let police know.
Einarsson hopes the man turns himself in. She left a note with a photo of Remy at the site of the grave he was visiting, hoping he sees her plea.
“Remy was my world,” she said. “Why did he have to kill him? Why couldn’t he have just joined his family in the car?”
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