MARSHALL, ONEIDA COUNTY NY – A FAMILY PIT BULL MIX ATTACKED AND KILLED AN 11-MONTH-OLD BABY BOY

UPDATE: THE DOG HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIX.

UPDATE:  Gardinier did say that pit bulls are more dangerous than other breeds because they are hard to stop once they have started to attack. “The thing about pit bulls is if things go wrong, they go very, very wrong,” she said. “If one attacks, it’s very hard to get them to stop. They are bred to latch on, to hang on, and that’s what they do.

An 11-month-old boy, Carter Evan Hartle,  was attacked and killed by THE FAMILY’S PET PIT BULL MIX last night, according to Oneida County Sheriff Robert M. Maciol. The incident occurred about 7:15 p.m. at a home at 2700 State Route 12B in the town of Marshall in Oneida County.

PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIX ?

The 2-year-old pit bull named Diesel was in the family’s living room playing with Lisa M. Cittadino’s three daughters ages 7, 10 and 12, police said. Cittadino, 32, toid police she turned her back momentarily and then heard screams from her son and daughters.

Cittadino said she saw the dog attacking her son, and began to frantically try to get the dog to release his grip on her child, police said. Once the dog let go, she called 911 and began giving her son first aid, police said.

Police said the child was near the dog’s food dish at the time of the attack, and that may have precipitated the attack.

The child was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Utica, police said, where he died as a result of injuries to his neck and face, deputies said.

The dog was taken by the Verona animal officer, and will be euthanized at the owner’s request.

Deputies said Cittadino said the dog has never been aggressive in the past.

The family has been offered counseling.

The Onondaga County Medical Examiner’s officer will conduct an autopsy.http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/11/11-month-old_dies_from_dog_attack_in_oneida_county.html

http://www.localsyr.com/news/local-news/child-killed-in-oneida-county-dog-attack

PICTURES OF PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIXES FROM INTERNET

2015 – U.S. DOG BITE RELATED FATALITIES  – 30 (12 CHILDREN – 18 ADULTS)

PIT BULL – 18

        FREDERICK MD – 

WEST MIFFLIN PA

 WHEELING WV 

       JEFFERSON COUNTY AR

       PAHRUMP NV

       DALLAS TX

       CHICAGO IL

       LAWTON OK

       PECOS TX

       HENDERSON COUNTY NC

       SHAKER HEIGHTS OH

       REDBIRD OK (4 dogs-3 pit bulls and 1 rottweiler)
       SPARTANBURG SC
       MOCKSVILLE DAVIE COUNTY NC
       NORTHSHORE RIVERSIDE COUNTY CA
       BAKER HEIGHTS WV
       VIDOR TX
       OKLAHOMA CITY OK
       ELMONT NY

PIT BULL MIXES – 3

       BROOKSVILLE FL

       COLLEGE SPRINGS PAGE COUNTY IA 
       MARSHALL NY – PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIX ?
3 DOGS:  AMERICAN BULLDOG, RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, LAB MIX??? – 1 ATTACK
      MIAMI DADE FL

ROTTWEILER –  2

       SULPHUR SPRINGS TX
        MADISON COUNTY TN  

UNKNOWN BREED DOGS –  5 

       COAL HILL JOHNSON COUNTY AR (RUMORED TO BE  HIS SON’S PIT BULL MIXES) 

       ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION SD  

       WASHINGTON GA (RUMORED TO BE PIT BULLS)

       CANYON LAKE TX
       AUTAUGA CO AL –  FB PIC SHOWED A LARGE PIT BULL AND 2 OTHER DOGS ONE OF 
       WHICH WAS TIED UP AT THE TIME OF THE MAULING – SHEPHERD MIX?? AND A LAB MIX         

(1-2-   PACK OF FERAL DOGS – UNIDENTIFIED NATIVE AMERICAN MALE ABOUT 40- GALLUP NM – PENDING – FOUND NEAR A FAST FOOD RESTAURANT ON U.S. 491 – POSSIBLY MAULED BY A PACK OF DOGS)

1.  1-7 –  EUGENE WESLEY SMITH –  87- FREDERICK MD – ATTACKED AND KILLED BY A 4-YEAR-OLD NEUTERED PIT BULL WEIGHING ABOUT 84 POUNDS THAT HAD BEEN RESCUED/ADOPTED AND LIVED IN THE HOME WITH SMITH, HIS SON AND HIS SON’S FIANCE SINCE MAY. 

2.  1-19 – DECLIN MOSS – 18 MONTHS – ISTACHATTA NORTH OF BROOKSVILLE FL – ATTACKED AND KILLED BY 2 OF THE FAMILY’S  PIT BULL MIXES  WHILE IN THE CARE OF HIS GRANDFATHER.

3.  1-22 –  MALAKI MILDWARD –  7 – COLLEGE SPRINGS, PAGE COUNTY IA – KILLED BY THE FAMILY’S TWO  8 OR 9 -MONTH-OLD PIT BULL MIXES.

4.  2-4  –  FREDERICK GLENN CRUTCHFIELD- 63- COAL HILL, JOHNSON COUNTY AR –  FOUND DEAD NEAR WOODED AREA OUTSIDE HIS HOME – AUTOPSY REVEALED HE DIED FROM BLOOD LOSS DUE TO MULTIPLE DOG BITES – THE DOGS, BREED UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, BELONGED TO A RELATIVE. 

 5. 2-22 – TAY’LYNN DEVAUGHN, 2 – WEST MIFFLIN PA – MAULED TO DEATH BY HER AUNT’S BOYFRIEND’S PIT BULL INSIDE THE HOME WHERE SHE AND HER FATHER HAD BEEN STAYING FOR SEVERAL DAYS – SHE HAD BEEN AROUND THE PIT BULL PREVIOUSLY.

6. 3-8 –  ROY HIGGINBOTHAM JR –  62 – WHEELING WV – AUTOPSY PENDING –  A 3-YEAR-OLD FEMALE PIT BULL OWNED BY DAVID WALLACE, 63, POSSIBLY A ROOMMATE OF HIGGINBOTHAM, ATTACKED HIM WHEN HE TRIED TO GIVE AID TO WALLACE WHO MAY HAVE HAD A HEART ATTACK.  WALLACE  HAD OWNED THE MOTHER OF THIS PIT BULL SO HE HAD THIS DOG SINCE IT WAS BORN.  AUTOPSY RESULTS SHOW THE VICTIM DIED FROM A SEVERED RADIAL ARTERY NEAR HIS LEFT WRIST.

7. 3-12- BETTY WOOD – 78 – SULPHUR SPRINGS TX – MAULED TO DEATH INSIDE HER HOME BY HER 5-YEAR-OLD ROTTWEILER

8. 3-14- JULIA CHARGING WHIRLWIND – 49 – WHITE RIVER SD – ROSEBUD RESERVATION – MAULED TO DEATH BY AT LEAST 2 AND PROBABLY MORE STRAY DOGS – BREED UNKNOWN.

9.  3-21- DE’TRICK JOHNSON- 36 – JEFFERSON COUNTY AR – ATTACKED AND MAULED TO DEATH BY 7 PIT BULLS AS HE GOT OUT OF HIS CAR AT C.J.’S GARAGE JUST OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS OF PINE BLUFF. HE WAS WAITING FOR THE OWNER TO ARRIVE TO OPEN THE GATES SO HE WAS STILL OUTSIDE THE GATES IN A PUBLIC STREET AREA.

10. 3-31 – NETA LEE ADAMS – 81 – WASHINGTON GA – FOUND DEAD IN A DITCH – THE CORONER RULED SHE HAD DIED FROM MULTIPLE DOG BITES – BREED UNKNOWN.

11.  4-14 – KENNETH LAWRENCE FORD – 79 – PAHRUMP NV – ATTACKED BY 3 PIT BULLS ON MARCH 13, HE DIED ON APRIL 14 FROM HIS SEVERE INJURIES.

12. 4-19 – BRAYDEN WILSON – 2-MONTH-OLD INFANT BOY – DALLAS TX – THE BABY WAS IN HIS BOUNCY SEAT.  HIS FATHER WAS WITH HIM AND HIS MOTHER WAS NOT HOME – THE FATHER WENT OUTSIDE TO TURN ON A SPRINKLER  AND WHEN HE CAME BACK IN, THE FAMILY PIT BULL WAS MAULING THE BOY WHILE HE SAT IN THE BOUNCY CHAIR.

13. 5-2 – GAEGE ANTHONY RAMIREZ – 7 – CANYON LAKE TX – MAULED BY AS MANY AS 5 UNKNOWN BREED DOGS AT A HOUSE IN CANYON LAKE TEXAS WHERE HIS MOTHER HAD TAKEN HIM TO VISIT.

14. 5-25 – JAMES W. NEVELS III – 5 – CHICAGO IL – THE BOY WAS VISITING IN A HOME WITH HIS MOTHER – A PIT BULL (OWNER NOT KNOWN AT THIS TIME) WAS AT THE RESIDENCE AND WAS BEING KEPT IN A BEDROOM BUT IT “SOMEHOW” GOT TO THE BOY AND GRIPPED DOWN ON HIS NECK AND SHOULDER – HEROS – 2 TEENAGE BROTHERS CAME WITH EVERY OBJECT THEY COULD FIND AND BEGAN BEATING THE PIT BULL – A CHAIR, A KNIFE, A ROCK, A POLE, A BRICK UNTIL THEY BEAT THE MUTANT TO DEATH….BUT IT WAS TOO LATE!!! 

15.  6-28 – JORDON COLLINS-TYSON ‘JO JO’ – 3 – LAWTON, COMANCHE COUNTY OK – THE CHILD WAS BEING RAISED BY HIS GRANDFATHER AND THEY WERE AT HIS GREAT GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE.  IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE GRANDFATHER WAS WORKING ON A CAR THERE.  SOMEONE NOT NAMED WAS WATCHING AFTER THE CHILD BY LOOKING THROUGH A WINDOW AS HE PLAYED IN THE YARD.  WHEN THEY LOOKED AGAIN, THE BOY WAS BEING MAULED BY A PIT BULL. TWO DOGS WERE ON THE PROPERTY AND EXACTLY WHO OWNED THIS DOG HAS NOT BEEN NAMED YET.

16.  7-2 –  NORBERTO LEGARDA- 83 – PECOS TX – THE ELDERLY MAN WAS FEEDING A RELATIVE’S PET DOG IN THEIR  BACKYARD WHILE THEY WERE OUT OF TOWN WHEN 3 PIT BULLS ENTERED THE YARD AND BEGAN ATTACKING THE RELATIVE’S PET AND THEN TURNED ON THE MAN. BY THE TIME POLICE GOT THERE AND SUBDUED THE PIT BULLS, HE WAS ALREADY DEAD.

17.  7-7 – JOSHUA PHILLIP STROTHER – 6 – HENDERSON NC – NEIGHBORS ADOPTED A NEUTERED MALE PIT BULL ABOUT 1-YEAR-OLD FROM A SHELTER IN A NEARBY COUNTY AND THEY ALLOWED JOSHUA AS WELL AS THEIR GIRL ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS JOSHUA TO PLAY WITH IT – IT APPEARS THAT JOSHUA CLIMBED THE FENCE OF THE NEIGHBOR TO PLAY AND WHEN HIS MOTHER DISCOVERED HIM A FEW MINUTES LATER HE WAS COVERED IN BLOOD AND APPEARED TO BE DEAD.

18.  7-12 – ANNIE WILLIAMS – 71 – SHAKER HEIGHTS OH – SHE WAS PICKING UP HER 2 GRANDDAUGHTERS FROM THEIR FATHER’S HOUSE AND HAD A 13-YEAR-OLD RELATIVE IN THE CAR WITH HER.  SHE EXITED THE CAR AND WAS ATTACKED IMMEDIATELY BY A PIT BULL WHO BELONGED TO SOMEONE WHO ALSO LIVED IN THE HOUSE. tWO MEN CAME AND TRIED TO PRY THE PIT OFF HER BUT COULD NOT AND ONE OF THEM GOT A GUN AND FIRED. THE DOG WAS POSSIBLY WOUNDED AT THIS TIME AND IT RAN INTO THE BACK YARD. OFFICERS SHOT THE DOG DEAD WHEN THEY ARRIVED.  ANNIE WAS TRANSPORTED TO A HOSPITAL WHERE SHE DIED.

19.  7-24  – CAROLYN SUE LAMP – 68 – REDBIRD OK – SHE WAS FROM COWETA OK AND WAS WALKING ALONG PICKING UP CANS WHEN SHE WAS ATTACKED BY 4 DOGS – 3 PIT BULLS AND 1 ROTTWEILER.

20. 8-22 – PORSCHE NICOLE CARTEE – 25 – KILLED BY THE FAMILY PIT BULL THEY HAD OWNED SINCE IT WAS A BABY – IT WAS SAID TO BE AN UNNEUTERED MALE ABOUT 10-YEARS-OLD – A FRIEND HAS REPORTED THAT THE PIT BULL HAD ATTACKED THE MOTHER BEFORE PUTTING HER IN THE HOSPITAL BUT THEY NEVER REPORTED THE ATTACK TO OFFICIALS – THIS TIME IT BEGAN BY ATTACKING THE MOTHER AND NICOLE WENT TO HER AID AND IT TURNED ON HER – ANOTHER WOMAN IN THE HOME FINALLY GOT THE PIT OFF HER AND CALLED FOR HELP BUT SHE WAS FATALLY INJURED.

21. 8-24 – CATHY WHEATCRAFT – 48 –  MOCKSVILLE DAVIE COUNTY NC – THE WOMAN WALKED OUT TO HER MAILBOX SOMETIME BEFORE 7PM ON MONDAY EVENING AND THE NEIGHBOR’S PIT BULL ATTACKED AND KILLED HER – ANOTHER NEIGHBOR WAS INJURED COMING TO HER AID – IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE PIT BULL JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW OF ITS OWNER’S HOME – THE OWNER WAS NOT AT HOME AT THE TIME – THE PIT BULL HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN DECLARED “A NUISANCE” FOR ESCAPING ITS HOME AND ATTACKING ANOTHER DOG.

22. 9-4 – BARBARA MCCORMICK – 65 – BILLINGSLY AUTAUGA COUNTY AL – CORONER’S REPORT STATES CAUSE OF DEATH WAS FROM DOG ATTACK FROM THE FAMILY PETS DESCRIBED AS SHEPHERD MIX AND OR RETRIEVER MIX – THERE ARE NO WITNESSES BUT THE SHERIFF SPECULATES THAT THE SMALL, ELDERLY WOMAN WAS IN POOR HEALTH AND MAY HAVE BEEN FEEDING THE DOGS WHEN THEY GOT INTO A FIGHT OVER FOOD AND TURNED ON HER. FACEBOOK PICTURES OBTAINED FROM HER SON’S PAGE SHOWED A LARGE PIT BULL IN THE HOME.

23.  9-8 – EMILIO RIOS SR – 65 – NORTH SHORE RIVERSIDE COUNTY CA – 2 PIT BULLS ATTACKED AND KILLED HIM AS HE WAS WATERING HIS FLOWERS IN HIS YARD AND LEFT A WOMAN WHO TRIED TO HELP HIM SERIOUSLY INJURED AND IN THE HOSPITAL.

24.  9-22 – CARMEN REIGADA – 91 – MIAMI DADE FL – NEIGHBORS SAY THE 3 DOGS – AN AMERICAN BULLDOG, A RHODESIAN RIDGEBACK, A LAB MIX – BELONGED TO HER GRANDSON -SHE WAS ATTACKED AT HER HOME AROUND 4PM IN THE AFTERNOON ON TUESDAY.

25. 9-29 – LAMARKUS HICKS – 2- BAKER HEIGHTS WV – IT APPEARS AT THIS TIME THE CHILD WANDERED INTO A NEIGHBOR’S YARD WHERE A DOG WAS KEPT AND THE OWNER OF THE DOG FOUND THE CHILD AFTER HE WAS MAULED – THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL THEN LIFE FLIGHTED TO A LARGER FACILITY WHERE HE DIED. ONE WOMAN COMMENTING ON THESE STORIES SAYS HER MOTHER LIVES IN THE HOUSE IN BETWEEN WHERE THE CHILD LIVED AND WHERE THE ATTACK OCCURRED AND THAT THE CHILD PLAYED OFTEN WITH ALL THE CHILDREN IN THE AREA.  SHE SAYS THE DOG WAS A PIT BULL. 

26. 10-16 – EDGAR BROWN – 60 – OKLAHOMA CITY OK – ON OCTOBER 6 HE WAS ATTACKED BY 5 PIT BULLS AT A FRIEND’S RENTAL HOUSE – HIS BROTHER SAYS HE HAD BEEN ASKED TO GO OVER AND TAKE OUT GARBAGE FOR THIS FRIEND – THE DOGS APPARENTLY GOT THROUGH A HOLE IN A FENCE AND ATTACKED HIM IN THE FRONT YARD – HIS ARMS AND LEGS WERE SHREDDED AND BOTH LEGS HAD TO BE AMPUTATED AND PART OF AN ARM DUE TO INFECTION FROM THE DOG BITES AND HE ALSO SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND UNDERWENT HEART SURGERY – HE DIED ABOUT 2 WEEKS LATER.
27.  10-18 – TANNER SMITH – ON TUESDAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN  6 YEARS OLD – THE BOY WAS WITH HIS MOTHER ON SUNDAY VISITING AT A FRIEND’S HOME WHEN HE WAS ATTACKED BY 2 PIT BULLS – HE WAS BITTEN ABOUT 16 TIMES INCLUDING A BITE TO THE MAIN ARTERY IN HIS NECK.
28. 11-8 – AMIYAH KAYLA DUNSTON – ELMONT NY – THE CHILD WAS FROM BALDWIN NY AND HAD BEEN TAKEN TO THE HOUSE IN ELMONT EITHER TO VISIT HER BIOLOGICAL FATHER, OR FOR A PLAY DATE WITH OTHER CHILDREN – BOTH HAVE BEEN SAID IN MEDIA ACCOUNTS – SHE WAS PLAYING ON THIS SUNDAY MORNING WITH 2 OTHER GIRLS WHEN THE PIT BULL THAT WAS OWNED BY A RENTER THAT LIVED IN THE UPSTAIRS ATTACKED HER –  A WOMAN FROM THE DOWNSTAIRS APARTMENT WAS UNABLE TO PULL THE PIT OFF HER – OTHER NEIGHBORS TRIED TO GET IT OFF HER BUT WERE UNABLE – WHEN POLICE ARRIVED AN OFFICER SHOT THE PIT BULL AND THE CHILD DIED A FEW HOURS LATER AT THE HOSPITAL.
29. 11-12 –  ANTHONY RIGGS – 57 –  FAMILY MEMBERS DESCRIBE HIM AS A DOG LOVER AND HE HAD HAD MANY LARGE DOGS BEFORE – HE HAD ADOPTED THIS DOG SAID TO BE A ROTTWEILER ABOUT 3 HOURS EARLIER – IT ATTACKED HIM IN HIS HOME AND ATTACKED OTHERS AS THEY TRIED TO COME TO HIS AID – THE DOG WAS FINALLY PUT DOWN.
30. 11-15 – CARTER EVAN HARTLE – 11-M0NTHS-OLD – MARSHALL NY, THE DOG IS SAID TO BE A PIT BULL/SHAR PEI MIX NOW – THE MOTHER SAYS THE BABY WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM WITH HER 3 OLDER DAUGHTERS PLAYING WHEN SHE TURNED AWAY TO DO SOMETHING, THEN HEARD THEM ALL SCREAM AND THE DOG HAD THE BABY BY THE HEAD AND NECK.

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