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Article: Dog's death shatters neighbors on West San Jose street.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- April 6, 2007
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Byline: Linda Goldston
Apr. 6--The impact of the Toyota 4Runner was so loud that Mae and Ron Olson heard it in the back of their house, across Squiredell Drive in West San Jose.
"One of my sons started screaming, 'Mom, somebody got killed out on the street,'" said Mae Olson.
The "somebody" was a 60-pound Australian shepherd named Tucker. His death on March 20, one week before his fifth birthday, has shaken not only owners Christine and Ved Sharma but an entire neighborhood.
A disabled woman who lived next door lost her daily "ray of sunshine," a ray she felt when Tucker would come to lick her arm as she struggled from her car to her ...