Jimmy Ray Cowan III, 52, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was sentenced this week to serve 20 to 24 months in prison because his two pit bulls killed a neighbor. The body of Charles Gilbert Dalton, a father and grandfather, was found on March 14, 2006. He had bled to death from multiple dog bites, including […]
A pack of dogs belonging to Ruben Deanda mauled Lew Yallup last week as he picked up cans on Campbell road in Wapato, Washington. The victim nearly lost a leg, and the dog owner has been charged with four counts of owning a dog that caused serious injury. Deanda faces up to 4 years in […]
Jimmy Ray Cowan III, 52, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was sentenced this week to serve 20 to 24 months in prison because his two pit bulls killed a neighbor. The body of Charles Gilbert Dalton, a father and grandfather, was found on March 14, 2006. He had bled to death from multiple dog bites, including […]
In Memphis, Tennessee, law enforcement officials have decided to do nothing about a five-year-old boy who was horribly injured after being attacked and dragged down the street by a pit bull. The dog had jumped over or squeezed past its owner’s inadequate fence. (To see the fence and the video of the TV news story, click […]
On January 21, 2008, Rebecca Hirst, 18, was beaten by a screaming mob outside a nightclub in Wakefield, West Yorks, UK. Her attackers were screaming that she was responsible for the death of her 13-month-old son, Archie-Lee Hirst. The infant was killed by his grandmother’s Rottweiler on December 28, 2007. It was reported that Ms. […]
On Sunday, January 20, 2008, 24-year-old Kelli Chapman of Longville, Louisiana, was killed by the two pit bulls that belonged to her and her husband. Upon his return from work that night, he found her on the floor of their bedroom, where she had died of bite trauma and blood loss. Louisiana has a dog […]
Throughout the USA, dog owners are prosecuted for sometimes-serious crimes which were “carried out” by their dogs. For example, last week Curtis Lester, Jr. of Onalaska, Washington, was convicted of one count of reckless endangerment and five counts of animals at large. The charges stemmed from a July 31, 2007, incident in which several of […]
Police officers in Ohio entered a man’s home at the invitation of the man’s wife, who was not sure whether the man was inside. She had seen that the back door was unlocked, and therefore asked the officers to check whether he was there. The man had gone to bed — it was after 10 […]
On January 3, 2007, 8-month-old Andrew Stein of Brooklyn, New York, was killed in his home by his parents’ Doberman pinscher. New York is a “mixed” dog bite statute state, in that the statute provides strict liability for medical bills, but substantially adheres to the British “one-bite” rule. (For more about the ancient and unfair […]
In 2007, the USA saw 32 fatal dog attacks on people. For details and a month-by-month breakdown of the recent canine homicides, see Dangerous and Vicious Dogs. 20 of these took place in the 18 “one bite states” and 3 “mixed dog bite statute” states (referring to Georgia, Tennessee and New York, which have statutes that […]