India, Nov. 5 -- Trenton Garner, the Georgia officer who fatally shot baby donkey HeeHaw in August, will not face criminal charges, the district attorney, per CBS News. Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jaeson Smith said in a November 2 report that Cedartown Officer Trenton Garner reasonably acted to protect another officer during the encounter that killed HeeHaw.

Garner fired one shot at the one-year-old donkey after going into his pasture at the Elsberry Riding and Farm ranch in Rockmart, Georgia, during a search for a missing 12-year-old girl, according to an incident report seen by the New York Post.

Smith's report reportedly draws on a Georgia Department of Agriculture investigation, witness interviews, dispatch records...