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  • Trial opens in case involving fatal dog [pit bull] attack

    05/01/2007 7:21:42 PM PDT · by Huntress · 8 replies · 738+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | 5/1/07 | ROBERT A. CRONKLETON
    Leon Barner told a Wyandotte County jury Monday that he knew what his mother-in-law, Jimmie Mae McConnell, meant when she made a desperate call and told him, “They got me — call 911.” He said McConnell, of Kansas City, Kan., had always talked about a neighbor’s dogs. “One day they are going to get me,” he said McConnell had told him. Barner was the first witness to testify in the trial of Derick D. Lee, 33, of Kansas City, Kan., who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with McConnell’s death. McConnell, 71, died July 27 during a pit bull...