A McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a canine close to Johnsburg and at the least one deputy was bitten after police responded to a report of dogs preventing and a person injured.
The Sheriff’s Office reported at simply earlier than 8 p.m. Thursday that one canine remained within the unfastened within the space round West Huemann Drive and Stilling Boulevard and suggested residents within the space to remain of their houses and to report any sightings of the canine by calling 815-338-2144.
Residents ought to “exercise extreme caution for the immediate future,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned in an earlier alert to residents when two of the dogs had been on the unfastened.
The animals had been described by authorities as pit bulls or pit bull mixes.
Battalion Chief David Harwood of the McHenry Township Fire Protection District mentioned his company and the sheriff’s workplace had been had been dispatched at 5:50 p.m. Thursday to the 2500 block of West Huemann Drive for an animal chew. “It was relayed to us that several dogs were fighting and there was a person with injuries,” Harwood mentioned.
When responders acquired on scene, the dogs had been corralled right into a yard and a entrance porch and two individuals had been discovered to have been injured, Harwood mentioned, including these with accidents had been taken to Northwestern Hospital McHenry however that the accidents weren’t thought-about to be life-threatening.
But whereas authorities “were assessing the scene, the dogs managed to get out” and charged the deputies, Harwood mentioned. The battalion chief, who was additionally on the scene, mentioned he tried to cease the dogs utilizing a fireplace extinguisher, and the deputies tried to make use of Tasers on the dogs.
“Neither were effective” to cease the dogs from biting the 2 deputies, Harwood mentioned. He mentioned one officer was bitten and handled on scene and one other refused medical consideration.
