Mikhail Jackson said he walking by a townhouse in the Preston Creek complex in McDonough on his way back from school, when the garage door opened and two big dogs came running toward him.
Jackson said he took off running, but within seconds, he said the dogs were both attacking him.
"They wouldn't stop biting it (arm). The dogs jumped up and started biting it out of nowhere," Jackson told Channel 2's Craig Lucie.
Jackson's skin is now covered with puncture wounds. Many of the dog bites are so deep that he had to have multiple stitches. He has wounds on his cheek, forehead, back, legs and arms.
When Lucie went to see the dogs involved in the attack at the Henry County Animal Control shelter, one of them growled and barked at everyone who entered the quarantine area.
The other dog who attacked Jackson is a 7-month-old Great Dane.
Animal Control officers said when both dogs darted out of the garage, the dogs owner's girlfriend chased them jumping on top of Jackson to save him. She now has 15 stitches in her leg.
"She hovered herself over the child to try and keep the dogs away from him," said Vince Farah, who is the Animal Control Shelter Director.
Jackson told Lucie it could have been a totally different outcome had she not been there to intervene.
"If the dog would have got me, and no one was there, I probably would have been dead already," Jackson explained.
When Lucie tried to speak with the dog's owner, no one answered the door. He later found out that the apartment management kicked him out after Thursday's attack.
Henry County Animal Control officers said they can't release his name or the report yet because it's still an active investigation.
Mikhail Jackson's mother, Lashonta Mitchell, is a 911 dispatcher who said her latest call is one that will stay with her forever.
"I deal with it every day. That day it was crucial because it was my baby, and I couldn't get to my baby in enough time," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said her son is now terrified of dogs, and is afraid to go outside for fear that it may happen again.
Mitchell said she will do everything she can to make sure the owner doesn't get his dogs back.
Animal control has labeled them as dangerous dogs. They will have a hearing on whether the owner can have them back later this month.
(WSBTV - Nov 1, 2011)
