{"id":435056,"date":"2026-10-22T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435056\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:44:13","slug":"dog-on-the-loose-after-attacking-teen-girl-in-nw-miami-dade-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435056\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog on the loose after attacking teen girl in NW Miami-Dade \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A family dog that authorities say attacked a 17-year-old girl in northwest Miami-Dade remained on the loose Thursday after deputies tried unsuccessfully to catch the animal.<\/p>\n

Exclusive video from Chopper 6 captured the moments surrounding the search for the dog, named Diablo, near Northwest 66th Street and 17th Avenue.<\/p>\n

The video shows deputies in the backyard of a home, where the dog appears cornered near a structure as deputies move closer.<\/p>\n

The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said a deputy deployed an electronic control weapon after the dog aggressively approached from behind. The device did not strike the dog, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Chopper 6 video then shows Diablo running around the back of the property and escaping into the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Inside the home, deputies found a 17-year-old girl with several injuries. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue transported her to Jackson Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n

NBC6 cameras captured first responders taking the teenager from the property on a stretcher with one arm bandaged.<\/p>\n

The dog\u2019s owner told NBC6 that the teenager is doing better.<\/p>\n

But with Diablo still loose, the owner said she has been trying to figure out how to safely get the dog off the streets and has encountered difficulties with Miami-Dade Animal Services.<\/p>\n

The owner called Animal Services while NBC6 was present and asked whether she could bring in a dog that had bitten someone. She was told the facility was full.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if I do find him, what am I supposed to do?\u201d the owner said. \u201cHe\u2019s not like a dangerous dog. He probably isn\u2019t going to bite. It\u2019s probably something that just happened at the moment, but why take the risk?\u201d<\/p>\n

The owner said she does not live at the northwest Miami-Dade property and instead lives in Homestead and rents the property to others. According to the owner, people living in a rear unit help care for Diablo.<\/p>\n

She also said Diablo only understands commands in Spanish.<\/p>\n

As the search for Diablo continues, the owner is questioning why Animal Services did not respond alongside law enforcement following the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to our YouTube channel! NBC6 South Florida A family dog that authorities say attacked a 17-year-old girl…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1684,123,125,124,373,3278],"class_list":["post-435056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-animals","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-miami-dade-sheriffs-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}