Posted: 3/11/2009 2:39:03 PM EDT
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Carletta Bailey's in the hospital suffering deep gashes, bite marks, and scratches to her hands, arms, and legs.
Serious injuries but she's thankful she's alive, thankful her neighbor came running to help. There may be a connection in this case to a fatal mauling in Knox county in 2007. Tuesday's victim, Carletta Bailey says her two neighbors dogs, Cain and Able, are the ones who attacked her. She says that neighbor told her one of Cain's litter attacked and killed 21 year old Jennifer Lowe in west Knox County. She says she's just glad she wasn't killed. "I was scared to death. All I could think about was that woman in Knoxville. I'm going to die," says Bailey. With dressings covering her numerous puncture wounds and stitches, Carletta Bailey is recovering in the hospital after being mauled outside her Caryville home around noon Tuesday. She says she went outside her home to give her dog a treat when the two dogs, Cain and Able, attacked her as she sought safety in her pickup. "And he drug me down. When I hit the ground, the bigger one grabbed my leg and they drug me about ten feet," says Bailey. That's when Bailey says the dogs tore into her. "Able is the one that tore this arm up and I sacrificed this arm so that I could keep Cain away from my neck," says Bailey. "They had her down and when I seen them jerking on her, that was it. I started shooting," says neighbor Dennis Ward. Neighbor Dennis Ward says he shot one dog with a 22 caliber pistol. That dog ran off, but Ward says he who was scared to shoot the bigger dog that didn't move with that gun because he might miss. "I'm crawling through his legs and I'm holding onto his pant leg saying please don't let them get me no more because I know I'm in shock," says Bailey. Ward says, "So I had my wife go in the house and get a twenty gauge shotgun and that was the end of him." Sheriff's deputies and animal control arrived on scene confiscating the dead dog and three others as Bailey was sent to the hospital. Animal control officials say the animals have all been euthanized and they're currently having them checked for rabies. To Bailey, Dennis Ward is a hero. What do you think about that? Ward says, "I don't know. I'm just glad I was there." Bailey says, "Oh! He saved my life. If he hadn't been there, I'd been dead because I was losing air, I was getting weaker and weaker fighting them. If he hadn't been there, I'd died." WVLT attempted to contact the dog's owners, Justin Wilder and Roxie Ward, but were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, sheriff's officials say they're talking to the District Attorney General's Office to see if charges will be filed. Animal control says the dogs were pretty vicious. Officials say one of the dogs bit a tire of an arriving sheriff's deputy making it go flat. The deputy had to change his tire before he could leave the scene |
