South Carolina: Why won't the Sheriff's Office admit that it was two Pit Bulls and a German Shepherd that killed this boy?

SOUTH CAROLINA -- A Gaffney resident says Friday night’s dog attack should never have happened.

According to the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, 8-year-old Korbin Williams of Daniel Morgan School Road was walking outside with another friend when the two boys were attacked by three dogs.

The friend survived a bite to the leg, however Williams died from injuries and was pronounced dead on the scene.

According to dogsbite.org, in the Cherokee County Sheriff Dispatch archived recording of December 1, the dispatcher described the dogs as, "Two Pit Bulls and one German Shepherd." 

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Donald Blanton is also a resident of Daniel Morgan School Road, and lives next door to the owner of the dogs. He tells News 4 that he and his wife have had problems with these dogs for years.

“When I was cutting my grass I carried a gun to make sure the dogs didn’t come at me,” Blanton said. “When I was outside I just carried a stick with me to make sure the dogs didn’t come at me.”

Blanton says he contacted the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and was directed to animal control.

He says that despite countless calls, animal control only came out once to pick up one of the dogs. However, Blanton says the dog was soon returned to the owner.

“They told me there was nothing they could do so they didn’t come out there or even look at the problem,” Blanton said.

Blanton said he was not alone with his complaints. He says his neighbor had also had problems and voiced those problems to animal control.

“The dogs kept going over there getting into (the neighbor’s) fence and killing his chickens and ducks.”

 

Cherokee County Sheriff Steve Mueller says, however, that they do not have any reports of the dogs being vicious.

Note: This is not true. The neighbor says they've been complaining FOR YEARS.

He says that Williams’ mother, Bianca Thomas, was "looking after the dogs", and the 8-year-old was often seen looking after and playing with the dogs. 

“This was not just dogs that got out and attacked a random person,” Mueller said. “There was some history there.”

He encourages anyone to still come forward with instances involving the dog’s aggressive behaviors. However, he does not expect it to alter the investigation.

Currently no criminal charges have been filed.

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(WYFF4 - December 5, 2017)

Earlier:

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• South Carolina: Little boy, 8, mauled to death by dogs knew them; had just fed them
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