A family and a community are in mourning after their family’s dogs killed a 16-month-old girl in Ohio. Neighbors who witnessed the incident say they will never forget what they saw.
16-month-old Ohio girl mauled to death by pit bulls
“This is a nightmare they’re going through,” Akron Police Chief Steve Mylett said of Kavay Louis-Calderon’s family, reports WJW . “They’re destroyed by this, they’re absolutely destroyed by this. Nobody wanted this to happen to this child.”
According to authorities, Kavay’s uncle was babysitting the child when he got into an argument with an acquaintance on the home’s enclosed porch.
“The child was left inside the house with the family’s two pets and as this disturbance, fight, was occurring outside, it is believed the dogs reacted and directed their aggression at this beautiful 16-month-old girl,” Mylett said.
WJW reports.
Neighbors who witnessed the incident told WKYC they will never forget what they saw.
“That’s what I can’t get out of my head: her screaming and the 911 operator pulling that baby out,” said neighbor Richard Turner.
“That will always be with me.”
Kavay was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead, reports the Akron Beacon Journal . She did not live in the house where the attack occurred.
This is not the first time dogs have been violent.
Neighbors say the pair had attacked the mail carrier over the summer.
“He bit him a lot,” Jerry Smith said, WKYC reports. “He bit his hand, he bit his leg. They [didn’t do anything] about it, but they don’t deliver mail there anymore.”
The dogs have been impounded.
