One dog died after an officer used a Taser on it. The second dog is in the custody of animal control.
Everett police say officers first got word of the dogs just after 6:30 a.m. Saturday.
A 44-year-old man was walking the 1300 block of Lombard Avenue when the two dogs crossed the street and attacked him. The dogs bit him on the legs and back, but a passer-by managed to scare the dogs off.
"They had him down and you could see they had ripped open his back and they had a hold of his legs. They were trying to drag him off..."
The man was taken to a hospital.
Then an Everett officer was bit when he tried to get the dogs into his patrol car. He used a Taser, and the dogs ran away.
Police got a report that the dogs bit a 27-year-old woman as she got out of her car a work.
Police say the woman tried to get away from the dogs, but that they followed her and attacked.
Officers resorted to using ther public-address system to warn people in the neighborhood about the dogs.
Officers managed to find one dog, a pit bull terrier, in the 1500 block of Grand Avenue and used a Taser on it. The dog died as officers tried to restrain it.
The other dog, a boxer, returned to its home in the 1700 block of Lombard, where police talked to the owners.
Reports of other victims continued to come in.
A 44-year-old man walked to Providence Medical Center after he was attacked. He had been sleeping in the 1800 block of Broadway, where the dogs attacked his feet.
Police say he scared the dogs away by yelling and swinging his backpack at them. Still, the dogs bit through his shoes.
And a 54-year-old Everett woman told police that the dogs attacker her in her driveway. She managed to frighten the dogs by shouting and waving her arms.
After the dogs ran away, she saw punctures in her pants but hadn't been injured.
Police say the dogs, the female pit bull terrier named "Mia" and the female boxer named "Jewels," have what authorities call "a history."
Everett Animal Services declared them potentially dangerous dogs in August 2011 [after they attacked a boy on a skateboard].
Police say no charges have been filed against the owners of the dogs, but that officers continue to investigate.
(Seattlepi.com - August 27, 2012)
