KATY, Texas (KHOU/CBS NEWSPATH/WKRC) - A pack of dogs killed a 66-year-old man and injured a mother and her toddler in separate attacks in Katy, Texas, authorities said.
Blessing Okwunwa said three large dogs attacked her as she was placing her 2-year-old twins into their car seats. The dogs jumped on her and began biting, she said, forcing her to shield one of her children while trying to fight them off.
“They started jumping on me, biting me, and I was just trying to protect my son,” Okwunwa said.
Despite suffering multiple bites and bleeding, Okwunwa said she used a chair to fend off the dogs.
“I mean, I can be in pain, but not my baby,” she said.
Both Okwunwa and her son were treated for their injuries. Authorities said the same dogs earlier mauled a 66-year-old man to death as he was walking along the Mason Creek hiking trail.
Officials said the dogs had escaped from their owner’s yard. The animals have since been captured, and the investigation remains ongoing.
"I don't know what they would have done to them for them to be that aggressive," Okwunwa said.
This other article describes them as pit bull mixes: https://abc13.com/amp/post/woman-child-attacked-man-found-dead-dog-mauling-west-harris-county-according-hcso/18289340/
I’m glad Okwunwa and her children are safe. But she speculates she doesn’t know what was done to the dogs to make them act this way? In all likelihood nothing was done. The dogs were simply doing what they do…maim and kill. Hope the owner goes to jail.
I guess people still believe that the whole “it’s how the owners raised them” crap. People don’t want to believe that humans have the capability to genetically engineer an animal to cause destruction without a reason. This breed was created for the pure purpose of sport. Nothing more. This certain breeds of bullies have not been around long enough to alter the genetic makeup of these dogs to make them into what labs and others domesticated animals are like. In the end, humans need to look at the fact they created animal that should have never been created and now have to deal with the consequences.
It’s so frustrating especially when you read articles like this one. How horrific would it be to die by dog mauling? I hope people wake up soon. I always note where the Pitts live when I come across them. Why do these people even like their ugly faces? So many intelligent, beautiful, friendly and less violent breeds to choose from.
So these dogs killed someone and were allowed to live and attack more people? Am I reading this right?
I thinbk the two incident happened one after the other. On their rampage tour, all on one day, or one hour.
Yes, what I don’t quite understand is how much time passed between the two attacks. It somewhat seems to imply they got out, killed a man, were not caught, then attacked this mom and were then captured. I certainly hope they weren’t caught and returned after the murder to escape again.
My family lives near here and Ive been following this story. What happened is the dogs got out and killed a man on a trail in the neighborhood. People tried to help, and they were eventually able to run the dogs off. Then they ran on to the street where they found this woman with her babies. She got one safely in the car and ran with the other into the garage when the dogs took her down. They got a big bite of her leg, and the child has a serious injury to his head, either from a bite or from the fall, not sure. The mom was able to protect her child and fight the dogs away. Another neighbor came to help, then eventually the police (who had already been called due to the forst incident) got the dogs. There is video of the attack on the mom and child.
So it's not separate incidents, these dogs were on a killing spree. The reason the mom was able to fight off the dogs is because they were already exhausted from their first attack.
Also I just want to say that some people are making a big deal about her statement that something had been done to the dogs to make them that way. She is not defending the dogs or making the tired "it's how you raise them" excuse. She is not from the US and speaks with a heavy accent, so I doubt she even knows this is a talking point. She is clearly traumatized while talking about the incident. In context she comes across more as trying to make sense of how these dogs could be such monsters and how such a thing could have happened. In the news video, she's clearly still shaken up by it.The family of the dead man is seeking legal action against the pit owners, and I took the woman's comment to mean more like a way to hold them responsible, like what sort of people could they be if they have dog like this.
There was a series of attacks in India in 2022 where one pit went on a spree attacking 12 people in 5 different villages.
I wish I could say I was shocked, but pits just do this attack spree kind of thing.
Yikes, that sounds even worse than I imagined. I hope that the mother and child don't suffer any permanent harm from their injuries. Thank you for providing this context.
What was that pack of angry chihuahuas doing?!
Wait a minute...
In all seriousness, I am so happy she and her children are safe. These demon dogs are everywhere now and it seems as though group maulings are becoming more common each month. Pitbulls are not suitable for the public. At all.
We have to hold the owners accountable for this.
Or maybe a golden retriever!
true. instead of putting down dogs that have ATTACKED people, and even KILLED people, they gave the dogs back to the owners. ridiculous that dogs have more rights than PEOPLE.
I thought one of them was shot at and the other two were handed over?
THE POOR MAN THEY KILLED!!!! And now this poor woman is probably going to stew over the fact that something was done to these dogs to make them attack that way, when all they were doing was being pit mixes!!! Nobody had to do anything to them to make them behave that way!!! They were just being true to their pit side!!! I hope this owner has to spend MANY years in prison because of his/her stupidity in having to own THREE of these creatures!
"I don't know what they would have done to them for them to be that aggressive," Okwunwa said.. We know what dont we.
Brutal, poor man, rip only in his early 60's and poor mother, imagine this happening with your two babies! pure hell. Those dogs better be contained long term, this MUST never EVER be repeated. So sickening.
Im here looking at my normal dog, sleeping with her legs in the air, a rescue, too. No such aggression from her ever.
Pitbulls have multiple documented rampages like this. Literal mass maulings. No other breed does this.
Looks like it was 2 pitbulls and 1 Cane Corso
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/katy-dog-attack-family-speaks/285-18b71815-374e-4f1b-8713-afcfa2fc24dd
All owners should be charged as if they committed the murder themselves when their dogs do this to people
Get these maurauding killer dogs out of our society now. They have zero place here. To those that hate dogs, I know there are such groups and Ive seen their posts. These pitbulls kill dogs and other animsls and people daily. They inflict the most terrible death imaginable on them. You are siding, un wittingly, with pitbull supporters and owners. These dogs and people that support them are here to destroy us all. They have much money and political power behind them. A dead giveaway for an insidious agenda.
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