Gregg Co. boy fatally mauled by pit bulls

This is some sad news. But it even more shows how the dogs are blamed for the actions or non-actions of their owners.

KILGORE — A 10-year-old boy died Monday after authorities say he was mauled by two pit bulls in the small community of Leverett’s Chapel.

Gregg County Justice of the Peace B.H. Jameson pronounced Justin Clinton dead at a Longview hospital. Justin’s body was sent to Dallas for an autopsy. The Rusk County Sheriff’s Office said witnesses reported seeing the dogs drag the boy, who had been playing at a friend’s house, down the side of the road. Tyler television station KLTV reported that a motorist who saw the attack pulled the animals off the boy. “We just can’t believe it. The mother is not taking it very well and the grandmother is devastated,” Carolyn Spence, the boy’s great aunt, said in the Longview News-Journal. “This should have never happened to Justin.” The Rev. Edwin Findley, acting as spokesman for the family that owns the dogs, said both families were hurt by the attack. “He’d belonged to everybody. Everybody knew him,” neighbor Tammy Apking told KLTV. “He was friends with my little ones and he was just a good kid. And it hurt our heart when we found out it was him who got attacked. I mean it’s not fair.” Sheriff’s deputies are investigating. Rusk County Animal Control has the dogs. Justin was in the fourth grade at Leverett’s Chapel Elementary School.

Source: chron.com - Houston & Texas News (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6480350.html)

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