GEORGIA -- A 7-year-old boy on Sunday was attacked by a dog and bitten in the parking lot of a southside Burger King restaurant, Savannah-Chatham police reported.
Ebine Griffin suffered bites to his left arm and leg and a large-sized gash to his left thigh while walking across the parking lot to throw something away, police said.
The dog, described as a 3-year-old Chinese Shar-Pei, jumped out of the rear window of a vehicle owned by Scott and Judith Reynolds of Garden City and attacked the child without being provoked, police reported.
The animal was pulled from the child by a witness in the restaurant and the Reynolds, police said.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Memorial University Medical Center.
The Reynolds told police it was not the first time the animal had attacked a child, the first time being at their home in Garden City and that animal control had been involved, police said.
The animal was released to the animal control shelter, police said.
The child’s mother, Shirley Famble , said today her son, a first-grader at Largo-Tibet Elementary School, was released from the hospital Sunday evening. He was not walking Monday and was very sore and upset, she said.
(Savannah Now - May 14, 2012)
