Pit bull mauls 9-year-old girl to death on Long Island
A Long Island play date turned deadly Sunday when a pet pit bull attacked and killed a 9-year-old girl, releasing its death grip only to charge at a cop, police said.
“The dog had the girl in its mouth like a rag doll,” said a shocked neighbor who tried to fight off the attack in Elmont.
The little girl, whose identity was not immediately released by cops, had been playing with two friends in a debris-strewn, fenced-in backyard on Holland Ave. near Murray Hill St. when animal attacked her at 10:30 a.m., Nassau County cops said.
“I took my broom and tried to push it away,” said a neighbor who intervened in the bloody scene. “No parent wants to see what I saw.”
The mother of the girl the victim was visiting also tried to pull the dog off, witnesses said. She had left the three friends in the backyard with the dog when she went inside to get something, according to Anthony Jett, a roommate of the dog’s owner. Jett said the mom is the girlfriend of dog owner Carlyle Arnold, 29.
Sudden screaming from the two girls as they saw the dog maul their friend brought neighbors running.
When police arrived and two Nassau County cops ran to the backyard, where they saw the helpless child, authorities said.
As a third cop ran toward the girl from inside the house, the dog let go of her and charged the officer, police said.
The cop opened fire, squeezing off several shots that killed the dog, police said....
I hope you don't have kids bruh
