A boy was mauled to death by a dog Monday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, Chicago Police said.
Rescue workers responded to the 8900 block of South Carpenter about 9:35 p.m. and took the boy — whose age was not immediately available — to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
Bianca White, a neighbor who lives across the street from where the attack occurred, told reporters at the scene that neighbors were able to free the boy from the dog’s grasp by killing it with rocks and other objects.
“They stabbed it, threw a big rock on it,” White said. “They just started attacking it and [the dog] is dead now.”
White described the boy as lifeless after the dog released it from its jaws.
Witnesses described the dog as a pit bull. Police added that the dog has since been destroyed.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office could not immediately confirm the death Tuesday.
Further details were not available
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