INDIANA -- Evansville police shot and killed a pit bull late Thursday night after the dog attacked its owner.
According to Officer Tyrone Wood, the incident occurred at 409 E. Eichel Ave. around 11:30 p.m.
Wood said when police arrived, in response to a 911 call, the living room floor was covered in blood, the dog was ripping the arm of owner Tony Burden, 24, and a woman identified as Burden’s wife, Miriam Engelhardt, was screaming “He won’t let go” and hitting the dog, Brutis, with an aluminum bat.
Burden was shouting, “Help me, shoot him,” according to a police report.
Burden was taken to Deaconess Hospital with arm wounds and was in fair condition today.
Engelhardt told police Burden, who had been outside arguing with a neighbor, was attacked by the dog after he came inside and sat down in a living room chair.
AMR and the Evansville Fire Department were dispatched and the animal was picked up by Animal Control.
(Evansville Courier & Press - September 26, 2008)
