Savage: Four dogs manage to crawl under the fence of a yard in this Detroit neighborhood and maul to death a four-year-old boy walking by with his mother. Three dogs were killed by police, this one was taken into custody
A 4-year-old boy died after being mauled by multiple dogs Wednesday in the 15500 block of Baylis Street in Detroit.

The Wayne County Medical Examiner completed the autopsy Thursday, stating the cause of death to be from "multiple puncture wounds."

Xavier Strickland, 4, was walking down the street with his mother, Dolly Strickland, when the neighbor's dogs attacked. Witnesses told Local 4 the dogs dragged the toddler under a fence. They were headed to Thurgood Marshall Elementary School to volunteer.

Yolanda Samuels heard the mother's calls for help and called 911.

"The dog had grabbed the baby and pulled the baby underneath the fence," Samuels said. "When I saw them carrying her baby, all I could do was just grab my baby and say, "Oh, my God. He's lifeless."


Officers rushed Xavier to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

"My life is just torment right now because he's gone," said Dolly Strickland. They bit me first, and I laid on top of my son and was getting ready to run and the big one snatched him from me."

Police shot two of the dogs and were able to capture the others. However, there could be more dogs on the loose.

"The dog that was on top of my son, he had to keep shooting it," said Dolly Strickland. "He shot all of them, the ones that he could."

There were four dogs behind the fence -- a father, a mother and her pups. Police said all of them participated in the mauling.

"The viciousness of these animals, the fact that they removed this child from the mother's grasp and as the mother attempted to fight these dogs off, the dogs took the child and dragged the child to the location behind the fence," said Detroit Police Chief James Craig.

Craig said this case was so ugly that even his officers, who are used to seeing things most do not want to, were severely shaken.

"This is no different than when our officers are dealing with armed suspects," he said.

The chief said counselors will be brought in for the officers.

New Zealand -

A Dunedin woman required surgery after a dog attack so horrific it was "more like a shark attack".

The woman, who did not want to be identified, was delivering the Otago Daily Times in Walter St, in The Glen, about 6.30am yesterday when she was attacked by as many as three Irish wolfhounds.

Her partner said the attack was so frenzied it left "blood everywhere and pieces of flesh everywhere".

The woman would require multiple operations, including plastic surgery, and it was not yet known if she would walk again, as one of her calf muscles was "virtually all gone", said the man, who did not wish to be identified.

"It's that extreme - it's more like a shark attack," he said

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He was delivering newspapers nearby and had been left shaken and angry after the attack on his partner.

"There are these three dogs controlled by one guy, which is crazy because they are the size of a small horse," he said.

"[She] fell to the ground in fright and rolled down a big bank and the dogs just took to her, just tearing chunks off.

"It has made me really, really angry."

Two of the dogs were voluntarily euthanised by their owner and the Dunedin City Council's animal services department was investigating the extent of the third dog's role in the attack, the Dunedin District Council said.

"The dog owner was shaken and distressed by the incident," the council said.

"No further decision will be made [on the third dog's fate] until the DCC officers have spoken to the victim."

Senior Sergeant Craig Brown said the woman's injuries were among the worst he had seen from a dog attack.

"They are pretty severe," he said. "They are very nasty wounds."

The victim's partner said she was lucky to survive the attack, as the dogs had made attempts to attack her face and throat, leading to defensive wounds on her arms.

"She's not coping well mentally or physically," he said. "She's very, very traumatised."

Her recovery would take months and would affect her ability to work her three jobs.

"None of her jobs involve sitting down, so she is traumatised by the thought of that [losing income] as well," he said.

He thanked the members of the public who came to her aid immediately after the attack, saying they "were great" and applied first-aid.

A Dunedin Hospital spokeswoman said the woman was progressing well after surgery.

Council communications and marketing manager Graham McKerracher said statistics on attacks involving Irish wolfhounds were not immediately available yesterday.

But the breed was not registered as a menacing or aggressive breed and there were limited numbers of them in New Zealand.

Source: Otago Daily Times

that poor family,, how terrible,,

I can't imagine,,

don't yell to the dogs or left your back to them, if you're a stranger to them. wildness dog can be defined as wolf. I don't like to hurting what face the dogs were showing to me but they're the truth good boys in my memories. But you'd better ' don't '. because the dogs won't.

I don't understand this part:

Why take that one into custody?
Paws up, don't shoot? WTF?
Is it going to be put on trial by jury of its peers?
Do dogs get public defenders or represent themselves and put on a short leash?
Is it going to take a plea deal to roll over on its supplier?

Just kill the thing. It's a dog.

Is there a question of the mom using the dogs to kill her son for the insurance money or something?


And which is it?

Is one a vampire so can't be killed by bullets?

a Pulitzer prize winning writer...

i agree, thats gotta be one of the worst ways to see your child go...

How absolutley heart breaking...