A woman was in the violent grasp of her own pit bull. The dog bit her arm and refused to let go, prompting a neighbor to shoot the dog.
“Asked the neighbor, did she want him to shoot the dog and she answered ‘yes,’” neighbor Brian Matlack said.
Matlack woke to his neighbor yelling for help around 6 a.m.
The woman apparently slipped and fell on some ice, which startled the dog.
Yeah, that happens all the time. People are mauled by their own dogs when they trip on their leash, stumble on the sidewalk, trip walking out the door and their dog is "startled" into trying to kill them...
“A lot of people were trying to call the dog, trying to get the dog off. But it seemed pretty single-minded and focused on one thing,” Matlack said.
Another neighbor came over with a gun and with consent from the owner, he fired two shots.
“As soon as he fired the first shot, the dog let go and made a beeline toward him – kind of made a step toward him – and that’s when he shot and put the dog down again,” Matlack said.
The woman was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital and her condition is unknown.
(CBS Local - December 30, 2010)
