A Brooklyn cop shot and killed a pit bull that clamped its teeth into its owner’s leg Monday and wouldn’t let go.
But instead of saying thanks, the badly injured woman screamed, “They killed my baby! They killed my baby!”
“Even after he bit her, she was saying, ‘They just shot my dog!” said witness Keasha Rivers, 35, who watched the dog-bites-woman drama unfold from her apartment window.
“She was bleeding bad,” Rivers added. “They put her in the ambulance and took her to the hospital, but she was still upset they killed her dog.”
The injured 43-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant woman, known to her neighbors as Alison, was being treated for a severe dog bite at Kings County Hospital. Her full name and condition was not released.
Nor did police name the cop her capped the canine, a big-headed brute that neighbors said was named Cane.
The chain of events that ended with Cane’s death began around 8 a.m. when Alison was trying to load the doomed pooch and her other pit bull, Sasha, into her car.
For reasons unclear, Cane didn’t want to get into the vehicle and went after Sasha. And when Alison intervened, Cane went after her, witnesses said.
“She was hitting the dog,” Rivers said. “Then the dog started biting her in her inner thigh, like he was defending himself, biting her back. The dog had latched on to the owner. It must had hurt.”
Another witness, 28-year-old Sparkle Fernandez, said the woman tried to calm the dog down.
"She was trying to make him stop,” she said. “But he would not listen. He just wanted a piece of that meat. He wasn't listening to her."
Angel Sanchez, 25, said he ran over and got Sasha into the car.
“Then I tried to get the dog out of her,” Sanchez said. “I pulled the collar to try to choke him. But he wouldn't let go. It just made him more angry.”
By then the cops were on the scene and began trying to pry Cane off the struggling woman by hitting it with sticks, witnesses said.
When that didn’t work, one of the officers pull out his gun and placed it against Cane.
“He shot him once in the ribs, right side,” Sanchez said. “He didn't let go after that. He shot him again, same spot.”
Cane let go, started whimpering, then died, Sanchez said.
Therese Moore, who lives next door to Alison, said she was afraid of Cane and stayed away from him.
“That dog is big,” said Moore, 46. “He had one of those big heads. He was big, like a baby lion. She didn't have control of the dog. He thought he was the master.”
(NY Daily News - Oct 21, 2013)
one down , but how many more million pits to go ?
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