JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An starlet and Jacksonville native says she was assaulted by an aggressive dog. Laeann Amos-Reed is recuperating in her home in Ohio.
The dog bite took place days after a film best in Jacksonville. The injuries appeared like something out of a scary movie. But Amos-Reed says this was no motion picture.
“I just saw blood on the ground,” said Amos-Reed. “Even the witness said to me, he said, Please don’t look down at your leg. I said it’s too late I already looked. I need proof. Nobody in their right mind will believe this if I don’t have proof,” said Reed.
It took place July 18th in a domestic community in Ohio. Amos-Reed simply completed a 7-mile run when she says the dog bit the back of her leg.
“When I got bit, I screamed and hollered at the top of my lungs. It was like pain, anguish. It came out of nowhere,” said Amos-Reed.
She says a good Samaritan called 911 and the dog’s owner assisted likewise.
There are cuts on her hands and lower arms. She says the dog ripped part of her calf muscle and tore a tendon.
Amos-Reed is a wellness coach with lots of Jacksonville customers and now it might be a while prior to she’s back.
“I can’t travel on my own. I have if the pain is unbearable sometimes. I cannot even do my movie premieres. Thank God we had one right before the incident happened,” said Amos Reed.
Support from her home town maintains her spirits. She’s attempting to approach this life altering occurrence with positivity. Amos-Reed says there is grace in how this might’ve been even worse.
“All I said was calmness is power, Peace be still calmness is power, Peace, be still stay calm, stay calm, stay calm. I said, man, God is using this for your story. This is the party your story is somebody who’s gonna get help from telling this,” said Amos-Reed.
She’s feels this might’ve been prevented.
Her message to anybody who owns what might be thought about an aggressive family pet to be accountable and take preventative measures to secure another person’s life.
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