A preliminary investigation suggested that the boy, who was not identified, was attacked after he entered a fenced area where two pit bulls were located, according to the statement.
Note: They have not said yet whether the little boy entered HIS OWN FENCED YARD in which his family's own Pit Bulls were kept, if he was at a relative's home and was familiar with these Pit Bulls in the backyard or if, for some reason, he entered someone else's yard.
Lowell police were notified of an injured child at a home on Clare Street around 6 p.m. and found him dead when they arrived, officials said.
In the video clip below, a neighbor said a woman was screaming and he saw her beating the dogs with a piece of wood.
One of the pit bulls escaped the fenced area after the attack but was later captured and euthanized, the district attorney’s office said.
The other pit bull is in the custody of animal control officials.
These photos were taken in 2012 by Google.
According to Hotpads.com, the house is separated into two apartments, one covering the main floor and then the other covering the upper floors of the building. This ad from September 2017 stated that the owner resides on the upper floors and the main floor was renting for $1,200/month.
As they say in the real estate business, "Location, location, location". The photos from Google maps, taken in 2012, are depressing enough but when you look at the current photos taken for the September 2017 -- just last month -- and you think, 'They're paying $1,200 a month for THAT?!". Like I said, it's all about location and anything close to a really big city is going to have high rents. This address is only about 30 miles from Boston.
Anyway, my guess is that the owner recently rented this 3-bedroom apartment and the new tenants brought their pit bulls with them (as the ad lists "fenced yard" as being included with the apartment) and the Pit Bulls attacked their owner (the child). Or perhaps the little boy is the landlord's son who was familiar with the dogs, seeing them all the time in the backyard, and thought he was safe to be around them? We'll see...
Dogsbite.org pointed out that a junior high school was right down the road from the house where the little boy was killed (photo below).
VIDEO NEWS CLIP:
One neighbor told WBZ-TV’s Anna Meiler the boy was inside the fence because a ball he and several other children were playing with rolled there.
“The kid was playing with a ball, it was about six or seven kids, and the ball went through the fence,” said neighbor Nilda Garcia. “He jumped the fence and the dog grabbed him and killed him.”
But another neighbor says the boy didn’t go inside, and was instead pulled into the fenced-in area by one of the dogs.
“The boy had leaned over the fence like this, ‘Come on, boy,’ and the dog grabbed him and pulled him over the fence,” neighbor Bill Brettancourt said. “The boy did not go in there on his own.”
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