Witnesses said the woman fell to the ground during the attack and received serious injuries including bites to the face. The 13-year-old boy was bit on the legs, witnesses said.
“The bad thing about it is a lot of these children have to get up, leave their houses and walk to the bus stops. I’m not always going to hear it. What happens next time?” said Sara Cornwell, who called 911 and came to the woman’s aid.
Paramedics with Waterloo Fire Rescue took boy and the woman to Allen Hospital. Today, police identified them as Vivien Brookman, 65, and William McNealy, 13. Their conditions were not immediately available.
“I think the female was very serious, where she needed surgery,” said Lt. Michael McNamee with the Waterloo Police Department.
Police shot and killed one of the dogs, an adult pit bull, and Waterloo Animal Control officers detained two younger dogs.
The assault happened at about 7 a.m. in the 800 block of Riehl Street when the dogs started chasing the boy.
KaRon Bennett, also 14, said he was getting ready for the day at his Riehl Street home when he heard the barking and first thought the dogs were fighting each other. Then he heard yelling and recognized it as the voice of his friend and went outside.
“He seen me, and he was like ‘help me,’ and I was ‘here I come.’ And I went to find something so I could hit them, so I picked up the water drain thing and I started hitting them with it,” KaRon said.
“I was scared, but at the same time I was like ‘yall can’t bite him.’ I hit them like ‘boom, boom,’” KaRon said.
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| KaRon demonstrates how he beat on the dogs which were attacking his friend |
As KaRon swung the aluminum downspout at the animals, his friend ran toward a neighbor’s chain link fence and jumped over to escape. The boys were able to flee inside KaRon’s house.
With the boys safe, KaRon’s mother’s boyfriend, Arlandis Lewis, peeked out to look for the dogs and saw the woman approaching on her walk.
“The dogs ran up to her, and she was trying to pet them and be nice to them, and all of the sudden they start jumping on her,” Lewis said.
She swung at the dogs, and they attacked her, Lewis said.
“That’s pretty much it. They just pretty much ate her alive after that,” Lewis said.
Cornwell, who called 911 after seeing the boys escape, heard the attack. He hopped in her Toyota Matrix and drove on the sidewalk and into KaRon’s yard, sounding the horn in attempt to scare them away.
“They wouldn’t do nothing. They just kept chewing on her,” Cornwell said.
“I couldn’t get out of the vehicle after I saw what they were doing to her legs and her face,” Cornwell said. She said she knew they’d attack her if she left the car.
Her son, Tanner, 11, retrieved his BB from his closet.
“I shot one in the hip to try to get him off her,” Tanner said. “He did the yelp sort of thing then he went right back at it.”
Police arrived a short time later.
“One of the officers shot the adult dog ... I think they all ran off then, and they trailed him,” McNamee said.
The shot dog collapsed in a driveway on Conger Street and died.
One of the younger dogs ran to a home about a block away on Riehl Street, and city animal control officers captured it and the other younger dog.
Eugene Love, said he owns the two younger animals — an 8-month-old male Boston Terrier mix and a 1-year-old female pit bull — but he said the adult that was shot was a stray he has seen in the area before.
Love said his two dogs haven’t been a problem and are good with children. That morning, they were being kept in the backyard, which is surrounded by a 6-foot tall wooden fence.
He believes they got out through a fresh hole and then met up with the stray.
(WCFCourier - Aug 28 2013)
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