An officer with the Morgantown (WV) Police Department who was seen on a video posted to social media shooting a possum was "putting it out of its misery," after it had been hit by a car and severely injured.
According to WTOP Radio , Morgantown Police Department spokesman Andrew Stacy said that the officer—whose name has not been released—found the animal mortally wounded and used a piece of wood to push it from the road to a grassy area where he shot it once with his service weapon.