FLORIDA -- At 7:45 p.m. on May 5 a deputy was called to the intersection of Fischer Lane and Firtree Lane in Palm Coast.
There, Henrietta Carroll, a 64-year-old resident of Fillmore Lane, had been walking her dogs (two tan colored Shiba-inu dogs on a leash) when two white pit bulls came sprinting from a yard to the south and, according to a police report, began attacking her two dogs. Both of her dogs were bitten on the neck during the attack.
As Carroll tried to separate the dogs, neighbors ran up to help. Carroll suffered two large scratches to her left upper arm, a small puncture on her right middle finger near the knuckle, and a large scratch on her upper back, according to the report.
Victoria Cardona, discovered the pit bulls were loose and brought them back to her residence at 31 Fischer Lane. The injuries to the dogs were not determined at the time. Cardona, 44, told a deputy that the two pit bulls belong to her son, Matthew Cardona, 22. She had placed the two dogs inside the fenced-in backyard and did not know how the dogs escaped, she told the deputy. The deputy located an area near one of the fence gates where the dogs had dug a hole beneath.
The scene was turned over to Palm Coast Animal Control.
(Flagler Live - May 13, 2012)
