The final of 5 dogs has been situated following an incident final week during which three folks had been bitten and one other canine was shot and killed by police close to Johnsburg.
“McHenry County Animal Control is letting the public know that all surviving pit bulls involved in an April 11 incident in unincorporated McHenry are now in the care of Animal Control,” the company posted on its web site Wednesday.
According to police and fireplace officers, they had been known as to a home within the Johnsburg space close to the Fox River for a report that two folks had been bitten as they tried to separate pit bulls who had been preventing. Though the 5 dogs had been corralled earlier than officers arrived, three of the canines acquired free whereas authorities had been talking to the homeowners and aggressively ran towards the officers. A McHenry County Sheriff’s deputy shot one of many dogs after non-lethal means, together with a Taser, didn’t cease it from attacking and after a deputy was additionally bitten, authorities mentioned.
Three different dogs had been taken into possession of Animal Control on the time, however one canine remained at massive. The Animal Control assertion didn’t say the place, how or when the final canine was captured.
