They kept coming back: Dogs attack schoolchildren, killing one and mauling another

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‘They kept coming back’: Dogs attack schoolchildren, killing one and mauling another

By Katie Mettler

@kemettler

January 19 at 6:43 AM

It was just before 7:30 Tuesday morning, around the time Shamonte Clayton’s southwest Atlanta neighborhood comes alive, when the sleeping resident was jarred awake by the sounds of children screaming. ... Alarmed, because these screams weren’t accompanied by the routine giggles of most school mornings, Clayton told local media he grabbed his gun and ran outside.

What he found was grisly chaos — panicked parents, flocking neighbors and a pack of scared schoolchildren shielding themselves from the jaws of several loose dogs circling the area. ... Those dogs, identified by officials as a pit bull mix and border collie, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, had already attacked.

Clayton told WXIA-TV he saw two more children, badly bitten, lying on the ground, a 5-year-old girl, Syari Sanders, and a boy, 6-year-old Logan Braatz. ... Nearby the boy’s limp body hovered his shocked mother.

“I picked up the child’s body because the mother couldn’t do nothing but sit there and just cry,” Clayton told the AJC, “… that hurt me.” ... He carried the boy to an ambulance, Clayton told the AJC, but his injuries were too severe. Logan died Tuesday, police said, and the Associated Press reported that Syari was hospitalized with critical injuries.

[ConSciousReset]

1. Hi

I was taught at a young age that if a dog attacks u shove your hand down its throat. Yes your hand and wrist my get injured but it's better than ur face or neck getting ripped off. I had to use this against a pit when I was 13 the dog ran off my hand a lil scratched up .
O btw it triggers the dogs gag reflex and freakes it out

[msongs]

2. push into a bite. pulling away is worse. learned that at teacher training lol nt

[Wounded Bear]

3. Don't make the dogs illegal, but...

any dog that attacks a human with no good reason should be put down, with no compensation to the owner, who still should face charges.