TEXAS -- Killeen Police are investigating after a toddler is killed by a dog on Saturday evening.
At 4:57 p.m., officers responded to a shots fired call in the 4100 block of Pennington Drive. While en route, they were told a dog had attacked several children.
They arrived to find a 2-year-old boy suffering from dog bites and an 8-year-old girl with less severe injuries.
Both children were rushed to Carl R Darnall Army Medical Center. At 5:30 p.m., the toddler succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead.
As of 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, the girl remained in stable condition in the hospital.
Witnesses say the two children and an 18-year-old man were walking home from a playground when a Bull Mastiff ran out from a garage and attacked them.
The dog dragged the 2-year-old down the roadway. That's when someone fired a gun, causing the animal to run away.
Killeen Animal Control took the dog while they investigate the case.
(KXXV - Mar 1, 2014)
Of the 4,559 dogs involved in fatal and disfiguring attacks on humans occurring in the U.S. & Canada since September 1982, when I began logging the data, 3,079 (68%) were pit bulls; 548 were Rottweilers; 3,888 (85%) were of related molosser breeds, including pit bulls, Rottweilers, mastiffs, bull mastiffs, boxers, and their mixes. Of the 541 human fatalities, 281 were killed by pit bulls; 86 were killed by Rottweilers; 408 (75%) were killed by molosser breeds. Of the 2,732 people who were disfigured, 1,848 (68%) were disfigured by pit bulls; 320 were disfigured by Rottweilers; 2,303 (84%) were disfigured by molosser breeds. Pit bulls--exclusive of their use in dogfighting--also inflict more than 70 times as many fatal and disfiguring injuries on other pets and livestock as on humans, a pattern unique to the pit bull class. Surveys of dogs offered for sale or adoption indicate that pit bulls and pit mixes are less than 6% of the U.S. dog population; molosser breeds, all combined, are 9%.
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