Child that is characterized by dogs in Jefferson City; A dog was shot and killed by the police

Jefferson City, Mo. (KMIZ)

According to the police, a small child was attacked by two dogs on Thursday evening in Jefferson City.

The Jefferson City police authority said that the dispatchers had received several 911 calls around 7:43 p.m. that reported a pit bull who actively attacks a child in the 1000 block of the Jackson Street. The officials said the dog still attacked the child when the emergency crews reacted to the scene.

When the officials arrived, they found the child and mother of the child, but said that the aggressive dogs had prevented them from helping. The animals then ran into a nearby park. Due to the proximity of the park to a heavily populated area, the officials shot one of the dogs on site, the department said in a press release.

The child was brought to the treatment of injuries to a hospital in Colombia who were suffered in the attack.

Dominique Harrison said he was sitting on his veranda when he heard someone screaming who screamed for help. When he walked the street, he said, the child's mother told him that her son had been pulled into her backyard by a couple of dogs.

Harrison went into the back yard and saw the two dogs wore a boy under a trampoline.

“I just saw the back of the head, he had a lot of hair.

Harrison said he went into the “protector mode”.

“Someone had to do something. So I took it in my hands to try to do the best I could,” he said.

Harrison said one of the dogs started calculating him. When he started to withdraw, he stepped over several tree stumps and objects that were scattered across the courtyard. A woman – who was nearby – gave him her stick with which he defended himself. After beating the dogs with a stick, he grabbed the child and ran home into the child's back door.

“They have a lot of trees. And so he grabbed the baby and ran into the owner's house because her back door was open,” said Harrison's wife Kennysah Lamara Harrison. “As soon as he entered there, he saw another dog, so at that moment it is like this:” What did I get in? “But the homeowner could grab this dog and put this dog in the basement.”

Kennysha Lamara Harrison added that one of the dogs was shot by the police in front of the University of Lincoln.

“I was at home and so he actually called and just said like screaming: 'Come down here, come here.' And when I went down there, I didn't know what was going on. My son was actually on the way home and we thought one of the dogs was still at large.

A police report from ABC 17 News says that the child is 4 years old. The police records show that one of the dogs began to run along Roland Street at 7.46 p.m., and at 7.48 p.m. the other dog had returned to his house. The officers first shot off shots at 7.49 p.m., but the fleeing Pitbull continued before he was finally killed near Lafayette and Darklin Street at 7:51 p.m.

“I have the feeling that you treated the situation as required,” said Dominique Harrison.