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Source Data: Report: U.S. Police and Citizen Shootings of Pit Bulls 2008 By DogsBite.org
Possible Prevented Deaths by Firearm Intervention
Description: The following is a group of 8 articles that correlates with, "Report: U.S. Police and
Citizen Shootings of Pit Bulls 2008," by DogsBite.org. The articles depict 8 cases in which police
firearm intervention may have prevented death by a pit bull mauling. The victims in these
instances include:
Catherine Barber, 70s (Washington D.C.), Tony Burden, 24 (Evansville, IL), Huong Le, 71
(SeaTac, WA), Roger Lindee, 41 (Palm Bay, FL), Denise Rocha, 41 (San Antonio, TX), Cameron
Salinas, 4 (Oconee County, SC), Trayshawn Toliver, 6 (Washington D.C.) Annette Williams, 45
(Greensburg, IN).
Citations
"Pit Bull Attack Victim's Condition Upgraded," ABC 7 News, December 9, 2008 (wjla.com)
"Police kill pit bull as it attacks its owner," Evansville Courier Press, September 26, 2008 (courierpress.com)
Christine Clarridge, "Pit bulls "tag-teamed" victim, 71," Seattle Times, September 10, 2008 (seattletimes.com)
Keyonna Summers, "Judge reserves ruling in pit bull attack case," Florida Today, October 30, 2008
(m.floridatoday.com)
Demond Fernandez, "Woman Mauled By Pit Bulls," WOAI San Antonio News, August 29, 2008 (woai.com)
"Pit Bull Attacks 4-Year-Old Boy," WYFF4 News, August 22, 2008 (wyff4.com)
"Boy, 6, Mauled By Dogs On West Side," cbs2 Chicago, September 14, 2008 (cbs2chicago.com)
Adam Huening, "Woman attacked by pit bull clings to life," Greensburg Daily News, June 16, 2008
(greensburgdailynews.com)
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WASHINGTON - The victim of Monday's vicious pit bull attack in D.C. remains
hospitalized in serious condition.
Catherine Barber, who is in her 70s, was taken to a hospital in critical condition
Monday evening after she was attacked while taking out the trash. She was in the
alley off Southern Avenue, behind her 41st Street home, when she encountered
her neighbor's two pit bulls. One pit bull attacked her.
"It could have happened to anybody, but you -- to think, you can't even go outside
to put your trash in the can and have a dog mangle you," said Henrietta Wright,
Barber's friend.
Barber was severely mauled about the head and neck until police arrived. Officers
shot the dog at least four times, killing it. Police say the pit bull was not fenced in,
nor was it chained up.
Barber has lived in the neighborhood
for more than 50 years. She teaches
yoga, dance and other classes to fellow
seniors at the Fort Davis Community Center.
Those who know Barber say her strength will see her through this.
"Miss Barber is very tough," said Tonya Cousins, who works at the Ft. Davis
Community Center . "Very tough, so if anybody pulled though I'm rooting for
her."
Animal control officers seized a second pit bull belonging to the same owner. Neighbors hope it is not coming back.
"I would not want them to, but that's not my call," said Betty Young, Barber's neighbor.
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Police kill pit bull as it attacks its ownerStaff report
Posted September 26, 2008 at 8:41 a.m. , updated September 26, 2008 at 8:41 a.m.
Evansville police shot and killed a pit bull late Thursday night after the dog attacked
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According to Officer Tyrone Wood, the incident occurred at 409 E. Eichel Ave. around
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Pit bulls "tag-teamed" victim, 71Huong Le, the 71-year-old woman who was attacked by two pit bulls Monday in SeaTac, is recovering from severe injuries.
By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter
This was supposed to be a good year for Huong Le.
"She was in good health and had rediscovered her
family in Vietnam," said Eric John Makus, who was
raised by Le and regards her as his adopted mother.
She was planning to visit Vietnam this year, he said.
The 71-year-old immigrant is now bound in
bandages at a Seattle hospital, recovering from a
brutal pit-bull attack Monday just feet from the front
door of the SeaTac home where she works as a
live-in caretaker.
Le spent more than 10 hours in surgery Monday at
the trauma center at Harborview Medical Center,
where surgeons worked painstakingly to preserve
her hearing and reattach her ears, both of which had
been ripped from her head, Makus said. Her jaw was
broken and her right arm and wrist were crushed
beyond complete repair, he said.
Her scalp is covered with staples and her legs have
deep, raw wounds that cannot be completely closed
because physicians fear trapping infection inside,
Makus said.
"This was not a dog bite, it was attempted
dismemberment," Makus said Tuesday. "There is no
way to describe the savagery and carnage."
Two King County sheriff's deputies fatally shot the
two pit bulls that attacked Le and seized two other pit bulls owned by the same man, Travis Cunningham
Sr., 36, of SeaTac.
King County Animal Care and Control is investigating the attack and will determine whether Cunningham
failed to follow a SeaTac ordinance requiring him to contain or muzzle his dogs, according to
spokeswoman Nancy McKenney.
Le — who emigrated from Vietnam about 40 years ago and once lived with Makus as a caretaker — was
attacked Monday morning in front of her SeaTac home after walking a child she cares for to the bus stop.
"She said she was walking back from the bus stop and the dogs were harassing her, running around her in
circles and growling," said Makus, who has spoken to Le about the attack. She told Makus she had not
seen the dogs before Monday. When she reached the home, the dogs got between her and the porch, he
said. Makus said she told the dogs to "go home" and they attacked.
"They pulled her down to the ground and she was kicking and screaming and trying to get away, but they
tag-teamed her," he said.
Cars drove by without stopping as she cried for help, he said she told him.
"She said the dogs were trying to rip her apart and
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she thought she was going to die," Makus said.
According to the King County Sheriff's Office, two
deputies were in the SeaTac neighborhood when the
8:18 a.m. call for help came in from a neighbor who
tried to intervene with a pitchfork. Deputies arrived at
the home on South 150th Street within seconds of
each other, saw the dogs on top of Le and shot the
dogs, according to sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John
Urquhart.
Cunningham, the dogs' owner, could not be reached
for comment on Tuesday, but his 18-year-old son told
KING-TV that the dogs had never been aggressive
before.
"I just don't understand why they'd go and attack. They've never attacked anybody, even people who
came over and stuff," Travis Cunningham Jr. told the television station.
The attack came as some anti-pit-bull activists in Seattle and Spokane are proposing bans against the
breed.
Makus, 46, said he hopes charges are filed. If not, Le won't be eligible for victim-compensation funds.
Makus said Le fled war-torn North Vietnam 40 years ago and made her way to South Vietnam, where she
was captured by a person Le described as a "bad man."
According to Makus, who said Le spoke little about those years, the man brought her illegally into the
U.S., kept her captive and beat her before she was rescued by a friend of Makus' father.
She was taken in by the Makuses and became a member of their family, he said.
Makus' attorney father worked tirelessly to secure a green card for her, which finally came one week
before his death.
In the years since, Le obtained her citizenship and worked as a caretaker for a number of individuals. Le
never married nor had children of her own, Makus said.
For the past decade or so, he said, Le has worked as a caretaker and nanny for the SeaTac family of four
she lives with.
"She was an angel in our family and she is the go-to person for those kids," he said. "They're absolutely
heartbroken."
McKenney said King County has received 893 calls so far this year reporting either a dog bite or an
encounter with a vicious dog, but she said the statistics are not separated by breed.
The Seattle Animal Shelter, however, does keep statistics on bites by breed.
According to the shelter, pit bulls account for a disproportionate number of reported bites in Seattle. While
pit bulls make up only 4 percent of licensed dogs, they make up 22 percent of reported bites.
Makus said he is now an advocate of the breed ban.
"An attack like this is an attack on all of us. There is no room for this breed in our society, our city, our
county, our state. It's a matter of public safety."
Christine Clarridge: 206-464-8983 or [email protected].
Times staff reporter Sanjay Bhatt contributed to this report.
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Judge reserves ruling in pit bull attack case
BY KEYONNA SUMMERS FLORIDA TODAY
October 30, 2008 08:58 AM
VIERA - A Brevard County judge said he wants to take time to review all factors before ruling on the "very
tragic" case of a pit bull attack, in which the victim's leg had to be amputated.
"This is an 'everyone loses' situation," Judge A.B. Majeed said Wednesday. "There are a lot of factors to be
considered . . . and the last thing I want to do is make a hasty ruling."
Nearly a dozen people -- including animal control and Palm Bay police officers and two neighbors who helped
stop the mauling -- testified Wednesday during the trial of dog owner Anthony Phillips, 25, of Palm Bay.
Phillips said he shouldn't have to pay nearly $600 in fines for allegedly violating county ordinances regulating
attacks and the proper securing of animals because his cousin, Roger Lindee, 41, of Palm Bay, brought the
Sept. 5 attack on himself by barging into his home uninvited.
Phillips pleaded guilty to not vaccinating his 4-year-old pit bull, Kilo.
But Lindee said he never physically stepped into the home after finishing work on a car outside Phillips' home.
The 75-pound dog grabbed him by the leg and dragged him into the foyer after he knocked on the door, then
opened it slightly to call out Phillips' name, he said.
Kilo was fatally shot, police said, after the dog charged at officers who responded to calls for help.
Phillips disputes that his two other pit bulls participated in the mauling.
Animal Services representatives said Phillips and his girlfriend, Kamesha Bullock, tried to hide those dogs'
alleged role in the attack, and that both dogs, which were not vaccinated, died at a county animal shelter this
month from illnesses..
Majeed did not say when he expected to render his ruling.
Contact Summers at 242-3642 or [email protected].
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reminder of the bloody dog attack. (News
4)
Woman Mauled By Pit Bulls
Reported by: Demond Fernandez
Email: [email protected]
Last Update: 8/29/2008 9:21 pm
Woman Mauled By Dogs on West Side
A woman mauled by a couple of pit bulls on the West Side
Thursday is in stable condition and improving at Brooke
Army Medical Center.
Denise Rocha was attacked and her poodle was killed
while walking along South Brazos Street.
The stained sidewalk is an horrific reminder of the bloody
dog attack. Several neighbors rushing to save Rocha from
the two dogs.
"I just needed to do something. I wanted to help," said
neighbor Anthony Ortiz.
Ortiz showed News 4 the machete, steel bat, and BB gun he used to fight the vicious dogs off
Rocha and her poodle. Ortiz said Rocha was walking her poodle when the pit bulls ran out of a
gate that was open.
"It was like the dog was trying to rip pieces of meat off," Ortiz said. "I couldn't see her face
because the head was all bloody. I guess he was biting her head too."
A couple of neighbors who tried fighting the dogs off Rocha were also bitten and have minor
injuries.
Neighbors said they've always been afraid of the dogs.
"He has been warned before," Ortiz said about the owner of the dogs. "There has been some
complaints, and I think police reports on them and the dog."
Police shot and killed one of the dogs. The other dog is under quarantine and will remain there
for at least 10 days as this investigation continues.
Investigators said both pit bulls are getting tested for rabies.
News 4 spoke with the dogs' owner.
Dog Owner: "There's two sides to every story. And wait until you hear the other side of the story."
News 4's Demond Fernandez: "Yeah, we are just trying to get the other side."
Dog Owner: "I'm going to give you the other side, but it's got to be the proper time."
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Attack Severs Artery In Boy's Leg
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A 4-year-old Oconee County boy was in serious condition at a local hospital
on Saturday after being attacked by a pit bull.
Paramedics said the dog was so aggressive that he even tried to bite the
rescue workers.
Cameron Salinas was attacked at a home on Union Crossing Road in a rural
part of the county on Friday, police said. He and his mother were visiting
April Stowe at the time.
Stowe saw the dog attack.
“I come outside, I seen what was going on," Stowe said. "I had a broom and a
mop. I broke the broom over his head. I couldn’t get him off.”
Stowe said she bought the dog, named Boss, and another dog for protection.
Boss weighed about 125 pounds, which was three times the size of the boy.
"His momma had him by both arms and the dog had him," Stowe said. "They
was pulling both ways with him."
Blood covered Stowe's porch, where both women struggled to get the boy to
safety. Salinas suffered bites to the thigh, backside and leg, where a major
artery was severed.
"Honestly, I thought the dog had done got him," Stowe said. "It scared me. I
thought, from what I seen, I thought he'd done lost too much blood. By the
time we got him in the house, he was white."
Deputies said they shot the dog eight times before killing it.
"You know, it had to be done," Stowe said. "I'd rather it had been him that
day instead of the baby."
Stowe said she’ll never own a large dog again. She even signed over her other
pit bull to authorities. Animal Control now has custody of the dog.
"We're going to have to evaluate her and see if she's going to be able to be
adopted out," said Jerry Zimmerman of Oconee County Animal Control. "If
not, we'll have to take other steps."
Stowe has been charged with having a dangerous dog and with a rabies
violation.
The fines total more than $1,200.
The dead pit bull is being tested to make sure it didn’t have rabies or bacteria
that might have been harmful to the boy.
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6-year-old boy Friday night in the West Side's Garfield Park neighborhood.
Authorities say Trayshawn Toliver is in serious but stable condition at Mt. Sinai Hospital,
and that he was bitten so severely that some of the bone in his leg was exposed.
Harrison District officers in the 500 block of North Lawndale Avenue witnessed three
dogs attacking the little boy about 7:50 p.m., according to police News Affairs Officer
JoAnn Taylor.
"I never seen anything like this in my life," said
Trayshawn's mother, Marla Thomas. "And I just
pray and hope that my son is going to be alright."
Police say Trayshawn had been playing with
friends in a vacant lot when the dogs in the yard
next door got through a storm-damaged fence and
got to the child.
"I jumped the fence, grabbed my little brother and I
was turning him to get away from the dog, and I
was punching the dog," said Demond Black. "I got
bit on my hand."
A neighbor and officers also came to Trayshawn's
aid.
"I heard the boy screaming, so I had to run back
over here," a witness told CBS 2's Kristyn
Hartman. "I didn't really do nothing because I
didn't want the dogs to attack me, so I had to flag
the police down."
Chicago Police Sgt. Adam Zelitzky said when they
tried to lift the child over the fence, two of the three
dogs were still clamped onto him.
Officers attempting to stop the pit bulls from
attacking the boy were forced to "destroy" two of
them, police said. One other pit bull escaped, but
was later in animal control's custody.
Witnesses stressed police did everything they
could to control the dogs, including using pepper
spray, before they resorted to using their firearms.
The owner of the dogs was being questioned by
police Friday night.
CBS 2's Kristyn Hartman and the STNG Wire
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A local woman is fighting for her life after being mauled by her own dog.
Woman attacked by pit bull clings to life
Adam Huening
Editor’s Note: This story contains graphic details that may be unsettling to
some readers. Discretion is advised.
A local woman is fighting
for her life after being
mauled by her own dog.
Annette Williams, 615 W. North St., was reported to be in Methodist
Hospital after her pit bull turned on her and attacked the woman in her
fenced-in backyard Saturday morning.
Monday, details surrounding the cause of the attack were still unknown.
However, the events and injuries were coming to light. According to
Greensburg Police Chief Brian Heaton, the GPD received a 911 call at 6:21
a.m. regarding a woman screaming in the 600 block of West North Street.
Heaton said an officer canvassed the area but discovered nothing
suspicious nor did the officer hear anything out of the ordinary.
Just after 7, Laura Irvine was leaving the home of Joyce Helt, who lives
across the alley from Williams. As she walked to her car, Irvine heard a
faint call for help behind the brown privacy fence surrounding the backyard
of the house next door.
“I heard her cry for help. It was really faint. Then she called out ‘Joyce.’
She must have heard the (back door) shut and called for help. We couldn’t
hear her inside,” Irvine said.
The woman went to investigate, walking to the back of Williams’ yard
where the fence was lower.
“When I got near the fence, the dog jumped up at the fence, barking and
growling right in my face,” Irvine said.
When she stepped back from the fence and looked around the dog, she
could see the scene. Williams was laying in the middle of the yard. Red
blood stained green blades of grass, the side of the garage and the garage
door. Everything in the yard had been knocked over and Williams was
barely able to speak.
Irvine called 911 at 7:17 a.m., according to Heaton, and waited with
Williams. She tried to keep her calm, she said, as the dog barked, growled
and paced back and forth.
“I kept telling her help was on the way,” Irvine said. “Anytime she would yell
‘help’ or try to talk, the dog would run around her and bark at her.”
When officers arrived, the dog stood its ground. Heaton said Lt. Fred Huser
and Officer Jarrod McCalvin were unable to enter the backyard. With the
dog’s aggressive behavior and the woman’s condition, the officers acted
quickly, Heaton said, and drew their weapons, destroying the pit bull.
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“They absolutely had no other option but to shoot the dog,” Heaton said.
“They both did a superb job. Unfortunately, they had to destroy it, but they
did what they had to do to help that person as quickly as possible, and
apparently just in time.”
With the dog dead, paramedics could finally access the yard to help
Williams. The viciousness of the attack gave her little time as she bled
profusely on the lawn. Williams was rushed to the hospital, Heaton said,
and later transported to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. According to
Irvine and Helt, Williams’ left arm was completely amputated and doctors
were waiting to see how the infection healed before determining if she
would lose her right arm as well. Helt said doctors had not determined if
the attack would be fatal.
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