Dog attacks pregnant woman, 9-year-old son in Chicago
CHICAGO -- A mother and her 9-year-old son are hospitalized after a pit bull attack Tuesday afternoon.
The pit bull broke free from a neighbor's home and surged toward a 9-year-old boy down the street.
"My son ran up on the porch. He was hollering. When I opened up the door, the dog was mauling him. I got a stick and started to beat the dog and got the dog up off of him," said father Willie Wilson.
Despite losing some blood, the boy was not seriously injured, officials said. But the dog wasn't done. Wilson said the animal then turned on his wife as she tried to save her son from the dog's grip.
"My wife was weak. My son was hysterical like he was going into a state of shock because that has never happened to either of them. She never seen her arm hanging open like that and he never knew he had holes in his body like that," Wilson said.
Lasheta Amos, the boy's mother, is two months pregnant and hospitalized in serious condition with with significant damage to her arm. Her 9-year-old son Devon required stitches. Only when Devon's dad grabbed a golf club and started hitting the pit bull, did the dog let go.
"It's supposed to be the people's dog down the street. They are good people, but I do not like what happened with their dog. That is very inappropriate," Williams said.
The dog's owner declined to speak with Eyewitness News.
