Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Three People Hurt in Dog Attack Tuesday Evening

KANSAS -- A dog that attacked three people in Salina Tuesday not was not a Pit Bull. Authorities at the scene initially identified the dog as a Pit Bulls. Wednesday morning police said that it was actually a Bulldog-Boxer mix named "Scrappy".

At around 5:30 in the evening police were called to 917 Pontiac to the report of a vicious dog. Police were called to the scene by a neighbor.

16-year-old Derek Rico is a student at Salina Central High School who lives in the house next door.

Salina Animal Control Officer Shane Hyman takes
one of the smaller dogs into his vehicle.

He tells KSAL News that he and a friend heard screams coming from their neighbor's backyard. He went to see what was going on, and discovered a large dog mauling a girl.

Rico says that there were a couple of small children nearby, so he got a shovel out of the garage and smacked the dog in the face with it. The dog did not slow down, and instead turned on Rico. He jumped a fence to escape, sustaining a cut over his eye and a cut on his hand.

Police arrived at the scene, and shot the dog in the chest with a shotgun. It did not go down.

Animal Control arrived, and shot the dog with a tranquilizer dart. It still did not go down.

It finally went down after an animal control officer got close enough to give it a tranquilizer injection.

Animal Control Officer Shane Hyman ended up taking three dogs from the home, including a large dog and two smaller dogs.

Salina Police Lt. Allen Salzman says that the large dog was the aggressor.

According to Police, 16-year old Christina Chapman, 11-year old Marquita Atkins and 10-year old Jasmine Atkins were all bit by the dog.

No charges have been filed so far, as the investigation continues.

(KSAL - Oct 14, 2008)