India, Sept. 1 -- The owner of a donkey was left heartbroken after a Cedartown police officer allegedly shot the animal dead in Polk County on Sunday, August 30. Hannah Israel has spoken out after the incident, calling HeeHaw the donkey her "son."

Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome said that command staff launched an investigation into the shooting. The unidentified officer was placed on administrative leave.

Israel is a Georgia farm owner. Her Facebook profile says she lives in Rockmart, Georgia but is from New Braunfels, Texas, and works at Elsberry Riding & Farm.

"At 12:45am cops entered my pasture searching for a missing person WITHOUT permission or warning and shot and killed my bottle raised baby donkey," she wrote on Facebook....