Police said the dog was let out of the house by a friend of the owner.
Charlotte Smith was dropping her children off for school when it happened.
"Next thing I know, here pops this pit bull out of nowhere and he's just biting and chasing," Smith told us. "A couple of kids got bit and several were bleeding."
"He kept on chasing me," her 9-year-old daughter Meagan told us. She said the dog bit her in the butt, breaking her skin.
"He started attacking two boys and then he tried to come get me and he got my shorts and pushed me down," added Cora Gary, a 10-year-old who was using crutches because of her fall.
Witnesses said little Danny, nine, and Brandon Hoffman, six, were attacked first — both suffered a bite to the butt that broke skin.
"The owner of the dog was out here walking around and just leaving em," Smith told us. "He said, 'Oh he's a sweet dog, he's a sweetheart!' He didn't look very sweet this morning."
Witnesses said the pit bull came from a home just two doors down. We saw someone go inside, but when we knocked on the door, no one answered.
The answer parents want is whether the dog has rabies.
"The doctors informed us that that can be very painful and both of my children have open wounds," said Krista Hoffman, Danny and Brandon's mother.
The parents said they don't want to add a series of rabies shots to their kids' trauma. Police said two children went to St. Francis for bites on the back and butt. Several parents said they took their kids to the doctor.
The dog was signed over to Animal Control and will be quarantined for 10 days at the shelter, to ensure it doesn't have rabies.
Police issued three summons to the owner. Those summons are for running at large, no current rabies vaccine and no county dog license. The investigation is ongoing at this point.
A spokesperson for Chesterfield County Schools said they are working with all of the impacted families.
Witnesses told us several children on a school bus saw it happen and were transferred to a different bus so that their driver could tell police what she saw.
(WWBT - May 9, 2012)
