KANSAS -- Around 8 p.m. Saturday night, 13 NEWS learned that the Topeka Police Department responded to a house located on the 800 block of SE Carnahan after a 911 call that 2 year-old Piper Dunbar was reported missing.
"We looked everywhere, I screamed her name so loud,” said Piper’s father, Donnie Dunbar. “Can’t believe that quick the most precious thing on earth can be taken away from you."
Police began searching the area and found little Piper dead in her front yard underneath a tarp.
Dunbar says he and Piper fell asleep earlier that evening and he told 13 NEWS he was unaware of what was happening.
"She figured out had to open a child safety lock with her fingers,” said Dunbar. “She could turn the knob and open a dead bolt that’s on the back door, she was so smart."
If those vicious dogs weren't in the backyard in the first place, this never would've happened.
Throughout the course of their investigation, police say they obtained enough information to believe Piper had been the victim of an animal attack.
Animal control responded to the scene and seized two pit bulls that Dunbar says belonged to Margaret Jaramillo, a family friend who had been staying with Dunbar to help take care of Piper since he is a single father.
Jaramillo says she was running errands during the attack and made the 911 call as soon as she realized Piper was gone.
"I saw her from the distance they wouldn't let us close to see her, from what I understand they think her injuries were caused by the dogs,” said Jaramillo.
Jaramillo says the two dogs were in the backyard and doesn’t know how they made their way to the front where Piper was. Police are continuing to investigate the case, but both Jaramillo and Dunbar are torn by the loss of Piper.
"She just loved attention and loved to be hugged,” said Jaramillo.
Dunbar and Jaramillo were taken to police headquarters and interviewed and TPD detective Brian Wheeleus. Wheelus says the police investigation will be submitted to District Attorney Chad Taylor's office.
BACKGROUND ON "MARGARET JARAMILLO"
According to
Dogsbite.org,
Margaret Jaramillo also goes by the name
Margaret Johnson. She says she's married to
James Johnson who also has a 2nd Facebook page
James Brook Johnson. If you look at Jaramillo's Facebook page, the URL says Brook Lowe so that may be yet another alias she uses (as James is using the middle name Brook).
2014 POST BY MARGARET:
A relative of Piper posted:
Those who pray, please do so for my cousin's lil 3 year old daughter, Piper. She was found dead today in a ditch in East Topeka, and that's all I know. Piper was an adorable lil girl who played with my daughter Abbey-Jo almost every weekend from last November until April, when Judge Watson pulled her bullshit.
Angela Stamps: So sad to hear....prayers...😞😞😞
Tyrone Carstarphen: Prayers
Cherie Ratcliff: Prayers to you and your family and anyone who had the joy of this baby girl.
AND OF COURSE YOU HAD TO HAVE SOMEONE JUMP IN AMONG ALL THE CONDOLENCES AND START DEFENDING PIT BULLS:
April Rudin: you know I find it funny whenever it involves a dog pits are always the ones doing it but nobody fails to look at the fact it's the owner at fault who neglected the dog bc if the pit had a good owner he or she should not be running loose if dog was not loose then owner should do better training so he or she not mean now the dog is gonna lose his or her life for nothing that was his or her fault but the owner or breeder.
I got a pit bull had since he was a pup and he is the most biggest baby ever and I would hurt anyone who tried to hurt my dog I have a 2, 4, 5 year old he was even around my kids as a baby 1,2 year old at time when I got him and protects my kids and other kids from other dogs coming around he even protects us and the only training we trying to do is teach him to let us know when strangers are on property but not to bit which he to much of a baby hard to get him to do he'll we can play with him stick hands in food dish he don't do shit but when this happens its the dogs fault never the person who owns or breeder dog but hell lets keep killing pits and banning them from county to county I seen other bred of dogs go crazy and kill people that are not pits it the OWNERS PEOPLE NOT THE DOG
Jocelyn Gonzalez-Castillo: Why is this even a topic of discussion? and why are we making assumptions that this is what happened to the child? There has been no updates on what happened. Let's quit the arguing over a dog and pray for a two year old who lost her life. Ppl seem to be more concerned over a damn dog and what's going to happen to it over that poor child.
April Rudin: yeah once again not dogs fault he or she didn't ask to be trained as a fighting dog dogs can't speak their minds they just do what they are trained to do
Derek Neal: Which is why the owners need to be screened, to protect the animals rights and innocent people
April Rudin: they are not born with it in their Damn DNA just like humans we were not born to kill or am I missing something is that I our DNA too bc we kill too it's all in how we are raised and taught as humans and we make the choice if we wanna live out how we are raised dogs can't do that pick how they wanna be once the owner puts shit I their minds they carry it out just like racists people I can't stand those type of people y they would choose to treat others that way but I guess its in our DNA too
Derek Neal: Behavior of an animal is genetically linked. That's why zebras aren't trained like horses. Their temperament is too ingrained in them and they are near impossible to get to follow directions.
Sheryl DePriest: I agree 100% Derek Neal. Just as retrievers retrieve, greyhounds run and bloodhounds track scents. ALL dog breeds were created by humans.
April Rudin: but u may as well call humans dogs too bc we were born as killers and to hurt others like dogs we ain't no different u people are really pathetic to say it's DNA bullshit u all are corrupted in life just like policeman think they got a badge they big shit do whatever they want we are all nothing but fuvking guinea pigs in life just bc ur a cop lawyer don't mean shit we are all alike hell I know cops who do drugs and then go bust others who do it when they do gor themself wow people
SUSAN THEN CHIMES IN THE OFT-REPEATED (AND UNTRUE) CLAIM THAT PIT BULLS ARE "NANNY DOGS":
Susan Sender: They're called the nanny dog everybody look it up they're not vicious to children unless they're taught
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PIT BULLS ARE NOT NANNY DOGS:
Look at Victorian paintings: Nearly all of the dogs shown
as "nanny dogs" are Collies and St. Bernards (click to enlarge) |
Piper Nevaeh Dunbar obituary:
December 16, 2013 - September 24, 2016
Our little angel arrived on December 16, 2013 and entered in to heaven on September 24, 2016. Left to grieve her departure are her parents Donald (Donnie) Dunbar and Stephanie Rhoads-Dunbar; grandparents, Dennis and Estelle Dunbar, Jeremey Rhoads and Jessica Howard; aunts and uncles, Lisa and Josh Bourland, Billie Rhoads, Ashley Flectchall, and Joshua Kline; and many more extended family members.
She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Lorene Dunbar.
Donate for her funeral expenses here:
GoFundMe "Piper Dunbar"
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| Piper with her mom, Stephanie Rhoads |
