Sunday, May 25, 2008
YOUNGSTOWN — Neighbors used a rake to beat away a pit bull that mauled a 6-year-old Republic Avenue boy.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” said Wanda Greer, still trembling as she watched a Mahoning County dog warden use a snare to capture the tan pit bull next door around 8:20 p.m. Sunday.
“I heard his mother’s scream and then saw the dog rolling the baby like a tumbleweed. I heard the bones crush on his arm.”
Greer identified the child as Paul Richardson Jr., 1416 Republic. She said the dog bit the boy’s face and neck, ripped his lip and “bent his arm back like paper.”
She said there was a lot of blood and she showed great concern for the little boy’s condition.
“He was fading in and out,” she said.
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