Who stole Koji and Gustav, Lady Gaga's dogs?
Wednesday evening in Hollywood (United States), two men, still wanted this Thursday, engaged in a singular kidnapping.
The employee who walked the animals and to whom the star had entrusted their care, was shot and wounded during the assault, an investigation was opened.
Los Angeles police have called for witnesses to find the perpetrators of the violence and the theft.
The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) describes the "dognappers" as black men in their twenties, specifying that the shooter has blonde-colored dreadlocks.
The two criminals fled on Sierra Bonita Avenue, one of the arteries of the Hollywood district.
VIDEO. Lady Gaga's two dogs stolen, her walker shot dead in the street
The "Poker Face" performer, whose fortune is estimated to be close to $ 150 million, made no comment but offered the sum of $ 500,000 to anyone who brought him his two French bulldogs Koji and Gustav, according to the American site TMZ
(Editor's note: site specializing in celebrities and the first to have disseminated information),
while ensuring "that no questions will be asked".
A double-edged reward since the lure of profit can loosen languages as much as increase risks for the future.
Captain Jonathan Tippet, who heads the LAPD's Homicide and Burglary division, specializing in cases relating to Hollywood personalities, assured that part of the investigation would be to find out whether the two suspects knew that the two French bulldogs belong to the star: "At the moment, we have nothing to prove that this is the case" he declared in the pages of the Los Angeles Times.
The French Bulldog, a popular breed of dog in the United States
It is indeed possible that the thieves did not know the identity of the owner of the two canines.
The French Bulldog is a highly prized dog breed in the United States that can cost as much as $ 3,000 per puppy.
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The USA Today newspaper published a video of the assault captured on a neighbor's surveillance camera.
The images are impressive and the attack as fast as it is violent.
We see the victim, identified by the TMZ site as Ryan Fischer, Lady Gaga's "dogsitter", who walks three of the star's dogs when two men get out of a white Nissan.
As they try to grab the dogs, Fischer tries to resist:
Let them go!
shout the two thugs.
No !
Help me !
shouts the walker back.
It was then that one of the suspects pulled out a semi-automatic pistol and fired.
The two criminals flee in the wake of the wheel of their vehicle.
The victim's days are not in danger
The injured gunshot victim was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
According to the police, his life is not in danger.
Of the three dogs he was walking only one escaped kidnapping.
It is about Miss Asia, one of the most famous animals of his mistress and who has… his own Instagram account.
The star does not hesitate to post many photos of her pets on social networks.
Lady Gaga holds Miss Asia, the only one of the three dogs who escaped kidnapping. / Pacific Coast News / ABACA
Still according to the American press, Lady Gaga was not in the United States when the attack occurred.
According to TMZ she is in Rome filming for an action film, "Bullet Train", with Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as co-stars.
On January 20, during the inauguration ceremony of the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, the artist sang the American anthem in front of the White House.
