I'm not sure how useful this is,but over the past few years a number of dogs have been shot around these parts( not much livestock but alot of game rearing)
Anyways,one in particular was a GSD last year,shot in the backside (resulting in death) by someone local who had permission on a rabbit shoot( apparently the only thing the dog/owner did wrong was to stumble accross him as she also has permission from the landowner to walk dogs there- he was apparently annoyed because a spaniel he was trying to demonstrate work to someone was messing about)
This was reported to Police etc,there was a