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| Enzo with little Brownie |
The attack -- the second involving a pit bull on Farraday Lane since July -- has heightened neighbors' concerns. The pit bull in the first attack was never found but the pit bull that killed the smaller dog is at the Flagler Humane Society and will be euthanized, officials said Wednesday.
Enzo Castillo was walking his beloved Yorkie mix, Brownie, on a leash near his home earlier this month, according to his mother, Saira Castillo, and a report from the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
A neighbor named Patrick Morin, 30, also was walking a dog, a large pit bull, the report states.
Enzo's little dog started barking at the pit bull, which broke away from Morin and attacked the smaller dog. The pit bull bit the small dog in the abdomen, Enzo's mother said. Morin pulled the pit bull away and took it back to his home on Farraday Lane.
Saira Castillo took her son's dog to a veterinarian but the little dog could not be saved and was put to sleep. The attack has shaken Enzo. The boy cried and has had trouble sleeping since the fatal attack on his dog Nov. 2, Saira Castillo said.
"He is in shock because of what happened to his little dog," Saira Castillo said. "He loved the little dog as if it was his little brother."
Castillo is also upset that neither Morin nor anyone else from his home has apologized.
"They have not come by to say I'm sorry or anything," Castillo said.
But Morin doesn't understand what happened, said his roommate, Daniel Coletti, 37.
"Patrick is disabled," Coletti said. "He walks the dog at night."
Coletti added that the pit bull, named Gucci, didn't have problems relating to people, just to other animals.
"She's a really loveable dog, but when it comes to other animals, not too good," Coletti said.
Deputies notified Palm Coast Animal Control, which said it would respond the next morning, according to the report.
"When a dog is contained and it's animal to animal, we will wait until the morning," said Barbara Grossman, the city's code enforcement manager.
It was not the first time code enforcement has been called to Farraday Lane. On July 12, Carolyn McLaughlin was walking her dog when she said a rust-colored pit bull ran from the porch at 4B Farraday Lane and attacked her and her dog, according to a report from the Sheriff's Office.
McLaughlin suffered a bite on her right hand and near her left knee. Her dog also was bitten around the neck.
McLaughlin said her rat terrier, Lexie, survived the attack. She said the dangerous dogs living in the duplex frustrate her.
"They've been moving dogs through the house," McLaughlin said.
Deputies talked to Coletti and Morin, who said they were watching the dog for a friend. Coletti said then that he believed the dog was owned by a man named Charles who lives in Daytona North, according to the Sheriff's Office report.
But on Wednesday, Coletti said during an interview he didn't know anything about the dog involved in the July 12 attack and that it had not lived at duplex.
Grossman said that when city workers responded to the July 12 incident, they found only a black-and-white pit bull but not a rust-colored one. City workers quarantined the black-and-white dog and set a trap for the rust-colored dog but never found it, Grossman said.
McLaughlin is frustrated by the city's handling of the issue.
"The city came back and said 'Oh, you don't know what you saw,' " McLaughlin said. "I do know what I saw."
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| Exactly why is Flagler Humane Society animal care attendant Anthony McKay posing so sweetly with this killer dog? |
The black-and-white pit bull in the Nov. 2 attack, named Gucci, will be euthanized, said Jef Hale, executive director of the Flagler Humane Society. After the Nov. 2 attack, Gucci was moved out of the city's jurisdiction before Palm Coast Animal Control responded the next day.
Hale said Gucci was not turned over to the Flagler Humane Society until Tuesday.
Gucci belongs to Charles Reid, Humane Society officials said. Reid was arrested Nov. 7, accused of violating his felony probation on a drug charge and is being held in the Flagler County jail.
Hale said it's a bad situation all around.
"One dog is already dead and one dog will soon be dead," Hale said. "And the neighborhood will be on edge for a while. There are no winners in this."
[Well, officials dropped the ball on this one. Clearly b/c they did not respond immediately after the first incident, the owners hid the 'rust-colored pit bull'. And then officials threw their hands up in the air and never did anything else about it. Now this idiot pit bull owner has a 2nd dog that has not just attacked another animal, but killed it. When are they going to do something about it?
This idiot, who is sitting in jail, will eventually get out. And he will simply go get himself another pit bull (or two). Anyone who lives near him should go get their concealed weapons permit immeidately - in preparation for when his pit bulls go on the attack again.
You know how moms usually frame their kids' yearly school photos? I wonder if his mom does this with his arrest photos?
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| Charles Reid, DOB 08/30/86 |
So it appears Mr Reid was sentenced 09/22/08 for being a drug dealer (Offense: MARIJUANA-SALE/MANUF/DEL) and was given a 3-year probation sentence. A warrant was issued for his arrest on 01/31/11 and four charges were laid against him: Charge 1:STATUTE: 948.06F - CHARGE: Viol Prob Felony Offense, Charge 2:STATUTE: 948.06M - CHARGE: Viol Prob Misd Offense, Charge 3:STATUTE: 948.06F - CHARGE: Viol Prob Felony Offense, Charge 4: STATUTE: 948.06M - CHARGE: Viol Prob Misd Offense. They picked him up on 11/07/11 and his bond was listed as $2,500.
It is utterly ridiculous that law-abiding citizens are terrorized by idiots like this and the law protects their 'right' to keep getting these monster dogs.]
(Daytona Beach News Journal - Nov 10, 2011)
(Florida Arrests.org)
