Dog attack seriously wounds 5-year-old
Animal control is investigating

Posted: 04/26/2011
Last Updated: 2 hours and 57 minutes ago

By Brian Kuebler

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BALTIMORE - Sitting in a wheel chair, his leg all bandaged up, five year old Khalil Willis says he feels better now, but only after a terrifying attack and a lot of pain.

"I am gonna have to leave this cast on because it's still not fixed up," the five year old said.

Only the innocence of a child can make it seem that simple, but his family knows this story is a lot more complicated.

Willis was playing behind his grandmother's house Monday evening when the family says what looked like a pit bull broke loose from a cage in a nearby yard and through a hole in the fence.

Witnesses say the dog attacked Willis biting him on the leg.

With him screaming, people threw bottles at the dog, threatened it with bricks, but it took his aunt beating the dog before it broke its grip.

"I had to hit the dog like four times in the head with a wooden stick to get him off of him and then we pulled him over the gate," said Andrea Scott.

Baltimore police responded, as did the fire department.

Khalil went to Johns Hopkins.

"He had over a hundred stitches, he is terrified to come to his grandmother's house now, he doesn't even want to walk the street. He is very scared to put his legs down and in a lot of pain," said mother Kenyetta Willis.

Willis wants something done.

She says the dog is not tied up correctly and judging by what it has done to a punching bag in the backyard. It’s not fit to be around children.

Willis called animal control and is expecting the city agency to investigate.

"Only time will tell, we just want Khalil to get better and I definitely want something done about the dog."

Animal Control picked up the dog Tuesday afternoon. The pitbull is current on his rabies and license. He will be held for 10 days at BARCS. Then, there will be a vicious dog hearing to determine what happens next. So far, no citations have been issued.