HARRISONBURG, VA (Rocktown Now) – In a filing issued Friday morning in U-S District Court in Harrisonburg, both sides have agreed to drop the lawsuit against Augusta County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Roane, who had shot a dog in what he claimed was self-defense.

The dog’s owner, Tina Ray, had filed the lawsuit after the incident occurred in September of 2017 at a home on West View Lane in the Greenville area.

After an investigation, Roane was not charged but the lawsuit was filed. A year later, U-S District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon dismissed the suit.

However, Ray appealed that ruling to the Fourth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision.

Augusta County then appealed that ruling and a trial was supposed to start Monday. As part of this morning’s agreement both sides agreed to be responsible for their own costs.

Ray’s attorney, Mario Williams, was also representing former Nexus Executive Richard Moore at his scheduled sentencing hearing on Thursday. That hearing was continued after Moore did not appear in federal court.