Local News in Brief : 2 Pit Bull Attacks Reported
A Los Angeles County animal control officer was injured near Hawthorne when she was attacked by “a sick pit bull” terrier and, in a separate incident Tuesday, sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a second pit bull that was chasing and attacking children on the grounds of Lennox High School.
Animal Control Officer Wilma Villasenor “underwent surgery most of the afternoon” at an area hospital after she was bitten while trying to capture the dog in its owner’s yard in the 5100 block of West 130th Street, fellow Officer James Clark said.
“The owner called and said his animal was sick and he wanted us to take it away,” Clark said.
However, as Villasenor and the owner tried to catch the animal, “it suddenly attacked her and she was pretty well bitten, especially on her left leg,” Clark said.
Animal control officers destroyed the dog.
Deputies were called to the high school after a pit bull “bit an unidentified citizen deeply on the calf,” Sheriff’s Lt. Drake Robles said.
When deputies tried to capture the dog, it “lunged at them and one of the deputies shot it to death with his shotgun,” the lieutenant said.
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