Posted on 05/30/2013 6:16:41 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
A California man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his pack of pit bulls attacked a 63-year-old female jogger, who later died of blood loss from some 200 puncture wounds.
Alex Jackson, 29, of Antelope Valley was booked on Thursday after his dogs, caught and impounded following the May 9 attack, tested positive to DNA belonging to victim, Pamela Devitt. He has also been charged with owner negligence, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office.
Jackson was initially arrested shortly after Devitt was killed while out for a jog near her home in Littlerock, but was later released on bail pending the DNA test results. He is now being held on more than $1 million bail.
According to CBS News, Devitt was 'dragged 50 yards, scalped and her arm removed' by the dogs. The Los Angeles County Coroner later determined she died of 'blood loss attributed to sharp force trauma.'
'The sharp force trauma was caused by the dog attack in which the victim sustained approximately 150 to 200 puncture wounds,' said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lt. John Corina.
Corina said a driver saw pit bulls attacking Devitt in the high desert community of Littlerock. The driver called 911 and honked her horn to try to get the dogs to stop.
Hours later, sheriff's and animal control officials served a search warrant on Jackson's home near the site of the attack and took away eight dogs, six pit bulls and two mixed-breeds.
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Pit Bull owners should get the death penalty when their mutt kills.
where were the cops who shoot those bad a$$ golden retrievers for bringing the ball to them?
You know the recent nature of pitbulls by what some people have done to them. Do yourself a favor and research the history of the breed, there was a time in this country when pits where the family dog of choice.
I don’t own Pits, but have almost daily contact with many Pits at a dog park I frequent with my Mastador and 99.9% of them are sweet loving animals and most are even submissive with other dogs. And by the way I have yet to meet a aggressive Rotty at the dog park either, so is it the breed or the breeder? I still say any breed is only as aggressive and vicious as the breeder and owner make it. In the 70’s it was Doby’s and Rotty’s now it’s the Pits, but the truth is itt has always beenthe people.
You know the recent nature of pitbulls by what some people have done to them. Do yourself a favor and research the history of the breed, there was a time in this country when pits where the family dog of choice.
A good dog protects its family.
A bad dog ravages a threat.
It is a matter of perspective.
There is no difference between the two except love.
Our healer was in heat a few years back and a pit jumped our fence. My husband was home and tried to run the pit off. He picked up a lawn implement, an edger I think.
In retelling the story, he told about putting the edger down and just opening the gate, yelling at the dog to leave. He told me that when fighting the animal with this implement he saw something in the animals eyes.
It was fear.
The animal was fighting a threat to its own life.
My husband saw no legitimate defense other than our own animals “virtue”. It was not a bad dog, it was a dog acting on instinct.
Yes, I fear put bulls - because I respect them.
Murder, as opposed to other charges where death was caused (manslaughter, negligence, etc), requires an element of intent. A prosecutor risks losing the case entirely by over-charging the crime, particularly when he has a lack of facts or supporting evidence. This is exactly how OJ and Casey Anthony "got away with it".
I guess FR isn't what it once was. You idiots cannot seem to have a rational thought without injecting emotionalism at every turn. Moronic.
Sorry, skippy. Second Degree murder at the least. The lethal danger was foreseeable and the results almost certain, yet the clueless owner did not take precautions proportional to the threat.
Stupidity is not a defense.
Update...
The dogs' owner, perhaps a drug dealer, HAS been charged with murder.
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