Jeriline McGinnis, 73-years old, died late Monday after being attacked by her own pit bull.
Multi-Victim Attack
Boston, MA - A woman is dead after being mauled by a family pit bull. The dog also attacked her husband and two police officers. First responders were dispatched to a multi-family home on Dennison Street around 4:50 pm Monday after reports that an aggressive dog attacked its owners -- a man and woman -- inside the home. The dog then attacked two officers who arrived at the scene. Officers fired on the vicious dog, injuring it. The woman, Jeriline Brady McGinnis, 73-years old, died late Monday.
"Obviously the dog, given what he did to the two victims, the owners of the dogs, the officers made the decision to discharge and put the dog down," Boston Police Deputy Superintendent Paul McLaughlin said. After the multi-victim attack, animal control removed three other dogs -- all pit bulls -- from the home. McGinnis had owned pit bulls for over 10 years, according to her multiple Facebook pages. In August, she posted a video of her three pit bulls playing in the snow in her front yard.
Surveillance video obtained by news stations captured the dog confronting the officers. One neighbor, who was not identified, said he heard three shots fired. "I heard two shots, and I saw that the dog was down. About a minute or so later, less than that, I heard a third shot," he said. A source told WBZ-TV the dog latched onto McGinnis' arm, nearly taking it off. When her husband jumped into save her, he also attacked. Last night at the scene, police said the husband sustained "very serious injuries."
The multi-family home is owned by civil rights leader Jean McGuire. She was walking her own dog in a nearby park when a pit bull named "Deuce" attacked McGinnis and her husband in their first-floor unit. "She’s a wonderful person. A very generous, a very loving person. Loved animals," McGuire said of McGuire. "I’ve lost my sister. She’s a sister." McGuire also said the couple "put them in cages" to keep the dogs from fighting, indicating the other three pit bulls may have been kenneled during the attack.
Had Dogs for 6 Years
NBC Boston reports that McGinnis was living in the home with four pit bulls that her son allegedly brought home about six years ago. McGinnis had owned a similar pit bull, "Buddha," since 2014. McGuire, who lives upstairs, had concerns about the dogs. "They had too many dogs," she said, shaking her head. Neighbors said the dogs "bark all night" and did not seem socialized. McGinnis' husband remains in the ICU at an area hospital. The city euthanized Deuce,1 the attacking dog.
An updated report identified her husband as Leon McGinnis. McGuire said that she has been renting to the couple for decades, who live downstairs with one of their three sons. In a telephone interview with the Boston Globe, McGuire said she doesn't know what unfolded. "I don’t know what happened, and until I find out from Leon, I won’t know," she said. McGuire also described the couple of having "a pit bull family." She added that the McGinnis’s would breed the dogs and sell the pit bull puppies.
McGinnis often posted her dogs to Facebook groups like Staffordshire Bull Terrier Lovers and Tiggers Outlaw Bullies. The dog in the right panel column could be "Deuce."
The multi-family home on Dennison St. where a pit bull killed its owner, Jeriline McGinnis
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I know this is wrong to said but I don’t care she died.she choose a pitbull as a family pet she and most people know that pitbull are dangerous no matter the time and loved you put to make them a good dog.pitbull are breed to killed livestock but the pitbull cult will always denied that fact.yes its was horrific for her family to witness her death and they felt bad they can’t do anything to help her but that the price you pay if you have a pitbull as a family dog.
My sympathies lie with the neighbors who had to cope with all of that barking.
These dogs are a drain on society.
Very sad as usual. Harboring pitbulls is dangerous, but look at all the information coming out of shelters calling them great dogs. Shelters would not adopt out killer dogs, but how does one separate the nice pitbulls from the killers before the kill?
When family members bring pitbulls home, those already there should do whatever it takes to have the pitbulls removed.
gee pit bulls ……………again
If you have pets like pitbulls, after ten years suddenly your doggies will be able to turn into horrible monsters who want to kill all of you even they can see you as food
It is too primitive to die in a dog attack in the civil age
So, 4 pits that they crated to keep from fighting. It was only a matter of time before this happened. And, again, I’m glad it was the owner and not an innocent neighbor that bore the brunt of their horrible choices.
The Facebook photos and videos always show 3 dogs, not 4, as recently as a November photo. Maybe one of these dogs could not be around the other 3? Or, crate-and-rotate. 3 dogs in and one dog out at different times.
I’d love to know why the pitbull decided to kill anyone. Did the pitbulls fight through the sides of the cages? If there is a reason, then that could be avoided. Normal dogs simply don’t kill people.
Unknown what the set up was. But when you say, “fight through the sides of the cages,” sure. According to the “pit bull handbook” each dog should be kenneled in a different room during crate-and-rotate so they cannot see each other!
This is what pitiots don’t understand. If you keep playing with fire, you will eventually get burned.
I had this same thought. Pit bull ownership seems to be the ultimate in FAFO.
While we can’t convince pitbull lovers, they are being destroyed by their own pit bulls.
Notice how it goes from “They rescued pits” to “Well, actually they bred pits and sold the puppies”.
I will not be at all surprised if it comes out they had connections to dog fighting.
I don’t see how you can say a pit breeder “loved animals”.
Considering how many pits are put down, many times because they killed other animals and or people, I think you loose your “animal lover” cred when it comes out you bred pits and sold the puppies.
It sounds much more likely that they loved untaxed income and selling pits was an easy way to get it.