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Mar 11, 2010 Police Fatally Shoot Pit Bull After Attack on Cop

Alton - The 60-pound pit bull named Scrappy who attacked an Alton police officer Thursday morning still had his jaws clamped down over the policeman's boot minutes after being shot four times by police.

"After the dog was deceased, they had to pry his jaws off the boot," Alton police Capt. Scott Waldrup said Friday.

The officer, Jonathan Lukowski, went back to work Thursday to finish his shift after getting 10 stitches in his thigh. Lukowski will be assigned to light duty, primarily answering phones, until he gets his stitches removed.

The Telegraph Accessed: 2011-12-28. (Archived by WebCite^® at http://www.webcitation.org/64HjfwCdJ)

Jul 08, 1905 Chicago Baby is Killed by a Bulldog

Chicago -Yvonne Davis, eighteen months old, was killed yesterday by a bulldog owned by her father. The little girl was playing with a ball, which rolled near the dog, and when she went to pick it up the dog knocked her down and fastened its teeth in her face.

Paul Korinortz, a neighbor, beat the dog with an iron bar and fired eight bullets into its body, but it still retained its grip on the child. After the dog was dead, it was found necessary to pry its jaws apart in order to release the girl. She died in ten minutes.