LITTLE ROCK — Sixty-year-old Lenzora Lott used a stick, two large rocks and even an old tire to try to pry two pit bulls from a 30-year-old woman whom the dogs attacked Friday afternoon as she walked in an alley near 13th and Pulaski streets in Little Rock.
“If it was me, I’d have killed the dogs right there even if I loved them,” Lott said while Little Rock Animal Control employees and police waited for the owner to surrender the dogs. “I would’ve shot them right there.”
Evidence of the attack remained after a Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services ambulance took the woman, Brenie Jones of England, to Baptist Health Medical Center. Dried blood was on the trunk of a white Cadillac parked in the backyard and a white ankle sock was on the ground.
“That’s a tragedy right there,” said Lott, who was cleaning the grounds of the nearby Cross Street Christian Church when he heard Jones’ screams and ran to her aid. “They could’ve killed her.”
Jones and an unidentified man were walking through the alley after 2:30 p.m. just as the owner of the dogs, a man identified as 54-year-old Geary Allmon of 1307 S. Pulaski St., was letting them out the back door of his home to relieve themselves, said Sgt. Cassandra Davis, a police spokesman.
The yard wasn’t fully enclosed.
“When she saw the dogs, she started running,” Davis said. “The dogs chased and attacked her.”
Lott said he and Jones’ male acquaintance both tried to get the dogs off Jones. The dogs had clamped down on one of her legs, but Lott said she suffered injuries on both legs.
Another woman tried to hit the dogs with her car to no avail, Lott said. Then Allmon, according to Lott, was going to use a stun gun on the dogs. But a woman who appeared to live at Allmon’s house called out to the dogs, who then returned inside the house, Lott said.
Jones remained at Baptist Health on Friday afternoon, but a hospital spokesman said she wasn’t permitted to disclose Jones’ condition.
Officers and Animal Control employees kept their distance while a distraught Allmon led his dogs, by this time on leashes, one at a time to the back of an Animal Control truck.
“I’m sorry,” Allmon said as he led the first one to the truck. “Get up in there.”
He finally had to lift the dog into the truck. The second, smaller dog jumped into the truck. Both will be held at least 10 days in quarantine, an Animal Control employee said before referring other questions to a supervisor.
Allmon was cited for having unregistered dogs and dogs running loose, Davis said.
Little Rock requires dogs that are deemed potentially dangerous - pit bulls are currently the only breed - to be sterilized and microchipped unless a veterinarian says the animal would be harmed. Also, the dog’s owner has to pay a $150 annual fee.
Arkansas, Pages 20 on 03/19/2011