Stray Pit Bulls Attack 8 Year Old & Grandmother South of Forney
On October 6, 2008 at 3:15 p.m. Forney 911 received a 911 call from a mother of an 8 year old female who was being attacked by two pit-bull dogs in the 10400 block of FM 740 South. At the time of arrival from the Forney Police, Fire, Animal Control and East Texas EMS witnessed a grandmother attempting to free her granddaughter from the dogs attacking the child. Care Flite was dispatched to the scene to transport the child to Children’s Medical and grandmother was transported by ambulance to Parkland. Mesquite Police and Animal Control were also on scene assisting the call. The dogs did not belong to the victims; they were running stray in the area. The owner of the dogs was contacted and has been in contact with Mesquite Police and Mesquite Police will continue the investigation.
Source: Forney PD Press Release
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A number of local news outlets have picked up this story, including…
Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/100708dnmetpitbullattack.e8c60c4d.html
CBS 11 (Video): http://news.yahoo.com/video/2821 (scroll down, this page updates fairly often, so this link may not be valid for long)
CBS 11 has reported that the dogs have been captured.
I am really confused .. as long as this incident is going to be so widely reported, I really would like to know for sure what kind of dogs these were …
Last night Channel 5 was saying 2 Rottweilers & a Border Collie/mix, Channel 11 said 2 pit bulls and a Pointer … etc.
Can anyone verify?
Also, it was reported that the woman who attempted to rescue the child was her 54 year old “GODmother” - not Grandmother.
Then news that a 3rd party was involved in the rescue,a 25 year old male ….
At any rate, I am glad to hear that both victims are doing well.
I’ve been really confused as well - I’ve heard a lot of conflicting reports from varying news agencies about this story. The original story that I posted was straight from the Forney PD news release, so that’s information from one of the agencies that responded to the scene.