Officer Fires Shots In Pit Bull Attack - Woman Reportedly Grazed By Bullet Fragment

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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Residents on a Detroit street received a scare Wednesday afternoon after an officer was forced to fire shots at a pit bull who attacked another officer and a child, Local 4 reported.

Police were called to an alley behind the home where Gino Morgan, 12, lived. The boy was apparently playing with fireworks, but police said neighbors thought the noise was coming from a gun.

Morgan's dog, a pit bull, was chained to a fence behind the home when it broke loose and lunged at one of the officers, taking a chunk out of his face.

"My dog was, like, broke off the chain and then it came up to the officer and I tried to grab it ... and it grabbed the officer's face," Morgan said.

Police said the officer's partner then fired one shot at the dog, but the dog ran out front of the boy's home where it attacked an 11-year-old child who was playing with a friend.

The officer reportedly fired more shots, but the dog did not stop, Local 4 reported.

Neighbors told Local 4 that the boy under attack tried to climb a fence to escape but the dog apparently grabbed hold of his shirt with its jaw and pulled him back.

The pit bull was struck dead at close range after a fifth shot was fired.

A woman sitting on a porch nearby was apparently grazed in the neck by a bullet fragment from one of the shots.

None of the injuries suffered in the incident were life threatening.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Notice how this article is not about a Cockapoo, spaniel, or retriever.

[dandelion]

Sooooo... a strange man shows up next to the dog's boy, the dog attacks the man, the dog gets shot, dog goes nuts and runs aways. Man chases dog, shoots it, and says it attacked someone else.

If the man wasn't a cop, this dog would be a hero for attacking a stranger who threatened his child. I normally support the cops, and I know they have to protect themselves, but this dog was just doing what a good dog should do - protect his family. What happened after the dog was shot is indicitive of the situation when you are blind, deaf, in pain, and can no longer tell where the threat is coming from - and knowing the cops in some cities, I'm not so sure the dog actually attacked another child. No details were given about severe injuries to anyone other than the dog, or the woman who was hit by the officer's bullet...

By the way, I don't own pit bulls, never have. But we are forgetting what dogs are, and why we own them. When they do their job, we punish them... kinda like we are feminizing our boys in school?

[csvset]

Last month I shot a neighbor's Pit Bull that had attacked another neighbor's Beagle.

I shot the Pit Bull three times with my .357. The Pit Bull dropped the Beagle and started to walk away. Another neighbor, (an off duty cop), put six 9mm rounds into the beast, killing it.

[dandelion]

By the way, my Cocker Spaniel, God bless her little heart, could never have protected her family from anything except chocolate bars, or loose plastic bags hung in trees (the ONLY time I ever heard her bark). She completely had the dog bred out of her, and for all practical purposes was a little girl, wearing a puppy dog costume.

My cat, on the other hand, is absolutely vicious - she growls at strangers in the alley behind the house, even when she's inside! It's a good thing cat's aren't as big as pit bulls, she'd eat the mailman for dinner...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It looks like they needed a swat team to handler a 12 yr. old and his dog.

[dandelion]

I'd have used a 45 - my husband swears the 9mm would just make them mad.

[thoughtomator]

Morgan's dog, a pit bull, was chained to a fence behind the home when it broke loose and lunged at one of the officers, taking a chunk out of his face.

"My dog was, like, broke off the chain and then it came up to the officer and I tried to grab it ... and it grabbed the officer's face," Morgan said.

Police said the officer's partner then fired one shot at the dog, but the dog ran out front of the boy's home where it attacked an 11-year-old child who was playing with a friend.

...obligatory Dog of Peace alert...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

How's the Beagle?

[dandelion]

My thoughts exactly - that's got to be one traumatized beagle... I bet he never wants to go hunting after this.

[csvset]

He's recovering from a dislocated leg and bites/wounds to his body. He was in a body cast for a week. The beagle's owner was very appreciative of our combined effort to save her dog.

[Trace21230]

Once again, another pit bull on the rampage.

When will municipalities wise up and ban this breed?

If smoking is dangerous to our health, there is no doubt that pit bulls are as well.

If you want a dog, get a beagle.

Trace

[BillyBonebrake]

Pit Bulls aren't dogs and their owners aren't humans.

[Prince Caspian]

Notice how this article is not about a Cockapoo, spaniel, or retriever.

I noticed, also, that you conspicuously omitted the always ferocious and ever-unpredictable dachshund from your list.

[dandelion]

Because this story is not about bedspreads or carpets. Oh, the carnage...

[Poohbah]

It's a dog breed of peace...

[Copernicus]

Notice how this article is not about a Cockapoo, spaniel, or retriever.

As in all things this is more likely to be an "owner" problem than a "pet" problem.

Selection of a certain individual dog, intermittent or no proper command training or socialization and you have a dangerous animal.

The breed, as a whole, exhibits exactly as wide a range of behaviour and temperment as can be found in Cockapoo, spaniel and retriever populations.

Owners who gravitate toward those breeds tend to euthanize bad examples of the breed and properly train the good examples.

Best regards,

[Egregious Philbin]

Pit Bulls and Kids

Petey was a pit bull.

[Trace21230]

Disagree. These dogs are bred for violence. If you had a pit bull raised by Mother Theresa, it might still one day go on a bloodthirsty rampage for no apparently reason.

These inherently dangerous dog breeds should be severely regulated and their owners should be held strictly liable for the injuries they inflict. Prison sentences should also be imposed, as if the owner had committed the crime.

If you can't own a dog responsibly and it kills someone, you should pay.

Trace

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I hate pit bulls too.

Growing up we had an idiot neighbor who raised them and would let them get out and roam the neighborhood. They bit more than one kid I can remember and the cops were called twice on him.

My father had one hem him up in our shop many, many years ago one summer when I was home from college. He began swinging at it with a piece of lumber when it lunged at him, I ran inside and returned with my 12ga. Only to find three more dogs outside the shop.

Needless to say that evening the neighbor came knocking on our door asking if we had seen his three dogs, of course we hadn’t…

Shoot, shovel and shut up was my father’s expression. That was about 25 years ago so I guess it would be safe to bring it up now.

=o)

[1rudeboy]

It looks like they needed a swat team to handler [sic] a 12 yr. old and his dog.

Naturally, if someone had been killed by the dog, you would have regaled us with the same comment.