TEXAS -- The City of Fort Worth decided Tuesday morning to put down four dogs that attacked a toddler in the family's back yard the day before.
The child was attacked about 4 p.m. behind the family's home in the 7800 block of Eastland Ave., near Lake Worth. That's in unincorporated Tarrant County, but the City of Fort Worth has custody of the animals.
A neighbor called 911 yesterday after hearing a woman scream. Sheriff's deputies say the little boy crawled through a doggie door into the back yard where four Boxer dogs attacked him. His parents were asleep inside when the accident happened.
"When I got to the back yard, I saw the grandfather and he had the baby in his arms," said neighbor Linda Kucker. "His ear was bit almost completely off. It was hanging by a little piece of skin in the back."
Four generations of the Walker family live on the street, and emotions ran high in the aftermath of the tragic accident.
[In the video, he storms across the street and demands to know if the tv crew is filming him. Duh. Then he smacks the microphone. A reporter tells him not to touch the equipment so Papaw snarls, "How 'bout I touch yer face?!" Nice one. Stay classy, Papaw.
Didn't Tom Brokaw call them the Greatest Generation? Papaw Walker must have missed that meeting.]
Then the boy's grandmother flew into a rage when a neighbor made a remark about the accident, and assaulted the woman in front of deputies and FOX 4's camera. Lena Walker was handcuffed and charged.
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| Anyone see that Wife Swap episode where the guy said he was gonna put a sign up in the front yard saying 'Don't feed the Sasquatch'? Heh. |
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| Mamaw gets herself cuffed and stuffed on camera. |
Another neighbor said she was scared of the entire situation -- and the Walker family.
"We've been very scared of the dogs," said Tiffany Shaw. "But we're also scared of them, so we're really not sure what to do."
(KDFW - Jan 31, 2012)
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