KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man was arrested on separate charges after his two dogs attacked a 12-year-old as he and his friends waited for the bus at East 12th Street and Bennington Avenue Tuesday morning.
“We were waiting for our bus and these dogs came barking like crazy,” said Francisco Hernandez, 12.
Others at the bus stop scattered because of the dogs.
Then the dogs came back.
“Except a little more vicious,” Hernandez said. “They were getting way too close for comfort. So I tried to fend them off, keep them away from my friends.”
The 911 call about two pit bulls attacking neighbors came in at about 7:04 a.m. Police responded and secured the perimeter and then Animal Control took control of the dogs.
Hernandez showed FOX 4 scratches and puncture wounds on both his forearms and his left shin.
But he said he wasn’t scared at all.
“Too busy to be scared. I was kicking them off and they kept jumping up on me and biting me,” Hernandez said.
He said a neighbor heard what was happening and fended the dogs off with a stick. The same neighbor was also attacked a few minutes earlier behind his house while he was feeding his own dogs.
An official with Animal Control identified the second victim as a 25-year-old man.
“He came out with a big stick. I guess he heard them barking like crazy. He didn’t hit them, just swinging,” the boy described his neighbor, for whom he was grateful.
Francisco was taken to the doctor and received a shot.
The dog owner was arrested on unrelated charges. He also received seven citations related to the dog attack including reporting false information for saying the dogs weren’t inside his house when officers arrived; two citations for allowing the dogs to bite another human; two tickets for not having the dogs licensed and two tickets because the dogs were not spayed or neutered.
Animal Control said there was also a third victim who left the scene before being identified.
