The Brief<\/p>\n
A 9-year-old was seriously injured by a family dog on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders provided aid at the Vista Lake Subdivision Pavilion.<\/p>\n
Dallas police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the attack.<\/p>\n
DALLAS, Ga. – A 9-year-old child has serious injuries after being bitten by a family dog, according to the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched to the Vista Lake Subdivision Pavilion at approximately 12:24 p.m. Saturday following calls about an animal bite. When they arrived, emergency responders located the young victim and provided immediate assistance.<\/p>\n
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The child was transported to a local hospital with severe injuries. Police confirmed the animal involved was the family\u2019s own dog.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
The Dallas Police Department said the investigation remains active and has not released details about the breed of the dog or the specific circumstances leading up to the attack.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
In a statement released Saturday afternoon, the department asked for community support for the child’s relatives.<\/p>\n
“On behalf of the entire Dallas Police Department, we ask that you keep the victim and their family in your prayers as they cope with this unthinkable tragedy,” the agency said.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this article came from a release sent to FOX 5 by the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A 9-year-old was seriously injured by a family dog on Saturday afternoon. Emergency responders provided aid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,401,23477,46719],"class_list":["post-102488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police","tag-emergency-responders","tag-vista-lake-subdivision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}