Pit bites Cop, Cop gets shot by partner trying to kill Pit!!!
Report: Officer Shoots Partner During Pit Bull Attack
Pit Bulls Remain At Large
POSTED: 6:21 p.m. EST December 2, 2004
UPDATED: 6:48 p.m. EST December 2, 2004
Story by Click On Detroit
-- An officer accidentally shot his partner while attempting to fight off two pit bulls, witnesses told Local 4.
Detroit police responded to a vicious dog call in the 8800 block of Trinity at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Evelyn Parker, 77, showed Local 4 a bite wound she received from one of the dogs.
"They came from the front of my car and the white one ran behind me and bit me and the brown one was in front of me and I was trying to keep him away with my cane," Parker said.
Anita Briantley, who lives in the neighborhood, said when police arrived at the scene, one of the dogs attacked an officer.
"I seen the brown dog charge the officer and the officer was shooting him," Briantley said.
Another neighbor, Darlene Smith, explained how the officer apparently shot his partner.
"They bit the officer on the hand. He went down because the dog lunged at him," Smith said. "The brown one ? my neighbor next door said it got (the officer) on the back of his leg as he went down and he was firing his gun and somehow he shot the other officer."
The gunshot struck the officer's partner in the knee. The injured officer was being treated, Local 4 reported.
The two pit bulls escaped and remain at large.
