DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A boy walking to his school bus stop was attacked and bitten by a dog on Tuesday morning.
Channel 2's Sophia Choi talked to the 11-year-old boy's mother who said the dog jumped over a fence and bit the boy on the legs on McKenzie Drive in DeKalb County.
The boy sad he thought he was going to die.
"I was just saying, 'God, please don't let me die," Samuel English said.
Witnesses say the dog only stopped when the owner's children enticed it with some meat.
“They held out a piece of meat and the dog came toward the meat,” said the boy's mother, Chemedria Webb.
Samuel was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston with bite marks to his legs.
TRENDING STORIES:
- Sargento cheese recall expanded due to possible contamination
- 'Coyote Challenge' asks people to kill coyotes for free hunting license
- Atlanta traffic among worst in the world, study finds
Webb said the attack could have been much worse.
“Running from the dog, my son fell on the ground,” Webb said. “He fought him off and the dog got hold to his thigh, his right thigh.”
Animal control said the one year old dog has gotten loose twice before, but the owner said this is the first time the animal attacked.
The owner of the dog, Timon Jefferson, surrendered it to animal control.
“Of course we're going to have to let her go. But you know, kids come first in my book so,” Jefferson said.