HOUSTON – Houston police are investigating a vicious animal attack involving a young child in north Houston.
HPD has confirmed a 2-year-old girl was attacked by three Rottweiler dogs at a home located in the 2400 block of Milwaukee Street around 12:20 p.m. on Monday.
Paramedics with Houston Fire responded to the scene on Milwaukee Street near the North Loop.
The child was taken to Texas Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Witnesses told police the dogs attacked the girl while she was inside a babysitter’s house.
KPRC 2 reporter Corley Peel spoke with a neighbor with young children who says she would see the dogs chained up outside the home and they would always bark. She said she typically separates her kids from dogs they aren’t normally around to make sure they’re safe.
The dogs were seized by the city’s Bureau of Animal Regulation and Care (BARC) and signed over by their owners on Monday. The dogs were humanely euthanized. Their specimens have been sent off to the lab for rabies testing.
Police have not released the child’s name and say they are waiting on autopsy results to confirm her cause of death.
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