Anaya Davis was killed by a pit bull after it busted out of a kennel and attacked her on Sunday.
Two People Charged
UPDATE 01/27/25: Two people were arrested Monday in connection to the pit bull mauling death of 2-year old Anaya Davis on December 29, according to Wichita Falls Police Public Information Officer Brian Arias. Deidre Jo Wheeler, 34, and Lacharles Demaio Ramsey, 35, each face multiple charges of abandoning, endangering a child and both have criminal histories dating back a decade, according to Wichita County Jail Records. The attack occurred at their home in the 1000 block of Wesely Drive.
The dog "busted out of the kennel" and attacked a two-year old child, resulting in critical injuries, according to police. She died at the hospital.
Wheeler faces seven charges of abandoning, endangering a child and one charge of injury to a child. Her bail is recommended at $450,000. Ramsey faces six charges of abandoning, endangering a child. His bail is recommended at $300,000. He is also being held without bail on a forgery charge. The endangering and injury to a child charges are felonies under the Texas penal code. In December, news reports confirmed the dog involved was a pit bull. Neighbors said the dog had a history of aggression.
Allegations Adults Not Present
Court affidavits allege that Wheeler told investigators she was babysitting the victim, along with her 8-month old sibling, while their mother was at work. Wheeler was also looking after her own six children at the time. Wheeler alleges that she and her husband Ramsey were present when the pit bull busted out of its kennel and attacked Anaya. The adults wrestled the dog off the child and began rushing her to a local hospital. Police intercepted them along the way, reports the Times Record News.
Wheeler's six children told a different story. When questioned by a forensic interviewer at Patsy’s House Children's Advocacy Center, they said neither parent was present when the dog attacked. The parents had left the children in the care of their 11-year old daughter. The couple arrived home during the attack, got the dog off the child then started toward the hospital. The children also told the interviewer the same dog had broken out of its kennel a year earlier and attacked a 5-year old sibling.
Court documents allege that investigators located video footage and obtained witnesses' accounts that confirmed the parents had been away from the home for about 45 minutes, during which the dog attacked. Thus, clarifying the criminal charges. Each parent faces six counts of felony abandoning, endangering a child -- one count for each minor child left alone in the home. Wheeler, who was the babysitter, faces an additional count of felony abandonment and one count of felony injury to a child.
Deidre Jo Wheeler and Lacharles Demaio Ramsey face charges after a dog killed a child.
12/30/24: Child Killed by Dog
Wichita Falls, TX - A 2-year old child is dead after being viciously attacked by a dog. Police were dispatched to a residence in the 1000 block of Wesley Drive at 5:08 pm on Sunday, December 29 in reference to a dog attack. Sgt. Brett Keith, Public Information Officer with the Wichita Falls Police Department, said information collected from the scene indicated that a dog "busted out of a kennel" and attacked a two-year old child, resulting in critical injuries. The toddler died at the hospital.
Animal control took possession of the dog Sunday and euthanized it, Keith said. Few other details have been released. Family members, however, are openly grieving on their social media pages. The baby's aunt identified the child as Anaya. The child's father, known as Pops BottomBoy on Facebook, is beyond devastated. "I want justice for my baby. I'm hurt. The story doesn't add up," he wrote. He stated in another post, "Why God, why my first born?" The baby's mother is also grieving online.
Police have not identified the owner of the dog, or the breed of dog involved. But commenters on the Texomas Facebook post know the routine all too well, "Pitty's gona pit," said one. "Here come the Pit Bull Experts," said another. "Busted out of the kennel and attacked? Well, that narrows the playing field," said a third. Commenter Vicki offered prayers to the "officers and EMTs that had to deal with this. It was hard on them." She also stated, "I heard from a reliable source it was a pit bull."
News Confirms Pit Bull
A video update from Texomas states, "The WFPD has confirmed that the tragic incident took place Sunday evening at a home on Wesley Drive. According to authorities, a pit bull broke out of its kennel and attacked a two-year old child. Despite the efforts of first responders, the child succumbed to her injuries at United Regional." Neighbors said the dog has been aggressive before, allegedly biting another child and attacking a dog. News footage shows the residence where the attack occurred.
A relative started a GoFundMe page to help the family pay funeral expenses. The organizer states in part, "I am starting this page to help my niece be able to pay for her 2-year-old little girl's funeral expenses. She was taken from her in a brutal dog attack over the weekend." The fund has raised just over $1,000. Apparently, the child was visiting the home on Wesley Drive in Wichita Falls when the dog attacked. Both of the baby's parents are listed as living in different cities on their Facebook pages.
Home on Wesley Drive where a pit bull busted out of a kennel and killed a 2-year old child.
Anaya Davis, 2-years old, was killed by a pit bull that busted out of a kennel to attack her.
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There is not a single dog crate sold in a pet store that is strong enough to hold a pitbull. There are ones sold on line which are designed to hold powerful dogs, but they are expensive. Most pitbull owners are not rich and cannot afford to purchase these crates. I think all of them are over $500. When I was working on emergency, I had a vicious pitbull in a fiberglass cage. When the owner came to get her, he brought no money. I told the staff to give him his dog because I thought the risk of that dog attacking staff, clients’ pets and clients was too great.
Tonight I answered an individual on Facebook. He has a genetically deaf, vicious male pitbull. He brought home a female pitbull which he “adopted”, and she came into heat.
His male bred her, and his male is threatening his child by growling at her. The dog’s also hiking his leg throughout the house so the owner has a pitbull in charge of the house. He wanted to know how to fix the aggression.
There’s one way to fix the aggression, but it’s the sort that makes a lot of noise. And it’s rather permanent.
There’s a silent way too.
There are dogs that can be fixed to some extent. It still takes extensive household management and vigilance and nobody with small children who is not a professional dog trainer by trade is equipped to deal with it.
Pitbulls are NOT one of the dogs that can be fixed because the aggression is not caused by poor handling practises (spoiling, dominance, fear or confusion)–it’s innate.
That specific pitbull has marked its territory and that child is the intruder. Sooner or later, that pitbull *will* kill her.
Deaf or not, he needs to put that pitbull, down. It can’t be re-homed without it repeating the same patterns. It’s a walking homicide, waiting to happen.
Since you likely won’t get through to them at that level I’d suggest this:
Ask him “how much are you enjoying life with that dog in your house?” followed by, “If you had a houseguest who threatened your child, would you let them continue to live with you?”
When I see a sheety acting dog on the street I’ve been known to ask, “Is that fun for you?” because I want to trigger them to think about that question. They can SEE I’m enjoying my dog.
They may not respond right away…but you want to get those wheels turning before that child is a victim.
dog training is an unregulated industry full of charlatans ! theres no fixing innate behavior you cannot even google ;off leash pit bull recall ‘ and find a single video by these so called professionals! GO LOOK theres no one with a skill set to ‘rehab ‘ aggressive dogs THERES NO SUCH THING , if these people knew how to train dogs there would be millions of off leash pit bull recall videos as proof THERE ARE NONE
You are so right Kelly. There are a lot of “dog trainers” who don’t have a clue how to fix normal dogs that are aggressive. Back in the 1980s when I was a young woman I realized that our local shelter had a lot of sweet small dogs that were being euthanized because they were never properly trained. So I started going to the shelter people & when they had a sweet little dog that was next in line to be put to sleep i would take them home and work on house breaking & basic training. One time I got a nice little cocker who was just so fearful of everything. I did my best but it was beyond my ability & I knew it so I asked for help from a person who was supposed to be a ” professional trainer”. He supposedly cured her & she was given to a woman with a small child. (Not my choice but I didn’t have control of the dog by then) She bit the little girl in the face after being cornered under the table. The dog was euthanized and I then realized that just because you put out a lot of bravado and make yourself out to be a dog savior doesn’t make it true! Look at Cesar Milan, a completely worthless trainer who’s managed to fool a lot of people & do great damage to dog training! It’s really not magic it’s just a lot of time, effort & patience to tech a dog to be well behaved. That & not missing the window to effectively socialize a puppy. Once that’s gone you can work really hard & be extremely patient with the dog and make some progress but it’s never going to match the same breed of dog that was properly socialized! And even if God himself were to come train dogs he would not change genetics! So the bottom line is that pit bulls are going to keep killing people & dogs until the breed is done away with! And it really doesn’t matter if they walk on a leash nicely or shit in the house their genetic makeup will always trump the degree of training!
let me guess you mean ‘cesar Milan ‘ can fix it……………..
NOT ONE VIDEO ON THE PLANET OF ANYONE PROVING THOSE ANIMALS CAN BE CONTROLED OFF LEASH that says it all
if you can actually find videos of pit bulls coming back off leash I will apologize
theres no correlation between deaf and aggressive NONE
the general public doesn’t understand genetic loading and the lack of taboo regarding inbreeding has created a monster , plus all terriers are jerks why would pits be different ………..
there is a reason the European kennel clubs disallow inbreeding,the fact UKC does allow even encourages it is problematic ,,,,,,,,,,and the XL Bully is proof its has lethal blowback
Wichita Falls has its own nonprofit for fanatics devoted to killer dogs, with sickening indifference to the horror, trauma and grief their advocacy results in.
https://www.texaspitcrew.org/who-we-are
“While we will help any animal in need that we can, we seek to promote the bully breed as the loving and loyal animals they are.”
Those ppl are exactly what you said, fanatics.
I don’t know what not allowing inbreeding means. Embark does COIs (coefficient of inbreeding) on samples submitted for DNA analysis. My GSD, Nodder, has a COI of 28%; but he has none of the same dogs in five generations.
Essentially, if one selects dogs for breeding with the traits one wants and those traits are viciousness, hard biting, and lots of muscle, one could get those traits without inbreeding. If one bred an insanely aggressive Presa canario to an insanely aggressive pitbull, the breeding would be an outcross; but it would most likely produce insanely aggressive dogs.
There is inbreeding in wildlife all the time. Wild rabbits inbreed, but that doesn’t produce killer rabbits. Likewise, if
one inbred sweet Golden retrievers, one would not get pitbulls in that breeding. Inbreeding sets temperament and type. It is used to develop new breeds.
As far as the XLbullies are concerned, people
selectively bred pitbulls to larger Molosser type breeds and selected puppies meeting their standards. English bulldogs were bred to small pitbulls to get micro bullies and Toady bullies.
Rachel, I have to agree. Pitbulls are the most outcrossed dogs around, for the most part. They’re infecting the gene pools of perfectly gentle mutts, labradors, bulldogs, Frenchies, etc etc.
This isn’t about inbreeding, although some of these “kennels” are overly inbreeding. It’s about *the actual breed* and crosses therein.
Inbreeding causes mental retardation, mental instability, immune issues and increases the risk of cancer to name but a few problems.
GSDs are remarkably inbred. That’s why even though the last 5 relatives are not related in your dog, he still has a COI higher than the result of a sibling – sibling pairing. Every purebred breeding of a GSD is basically inbreeding at that point. If you bred your GSD with an “unrelated” GSD it would effectively be the same as breeding him to his sister.
My GSD mix has only 40% GSD but she still has 40+ “close relatives” on embark. All who share 15 – 20% of their DNA with her (as close as half siblings, aunts and uncles). That’s how inbred GSDs are. Even my mix is related to loads of them (and I live in Europe and her “relatives” are in the USA – they arent actually closely related at all, GSDs are just that inbred).
Compare that to a mix breed / mutt: average COI is under 1%
Pit bulls are even worse off. I heard that their average COI is around 40%, and that the same dogs appear multiple times in a 5 gen pedigree for many purebred APBT. Its no wonder the breed has serious issues.
Where can I find proof that inbreeding causes mental retardation? The GSD is one of the most trainable breeds in the world. I guess the entire problem with pitbull mixes is inbreeding. Breed your pitty to a different breed, and the temperament problems disappear. What should I breed a pitty to? Maybe a Chihuahua? I think that’s a great idea.
That’s a total outcross. All purebred dogs likely have some inbreeding. In the meantime, should I worry about the local wild rabbits? I’m afraid they are inbred.
The pitbull’s problem is not inbreeding although I would assume the COI is not 1%. Its problem is what the dogs were bred for: Willingness to kill, Physical strength. Shape of mouth. Etc. If inbreeding produces crazy dogs, why aren’t all purebred dogs crazy?
To answer your last question, “all or nothing” is distorted reasoning. By that same logic the pit apologists argue that since not all pits attack, the breed is “misunderstood” and unfairly maligned.
Dear Lord, another child. Let’s hope the New Year brings some common sense, or at least the desire to live for owners or potential owners of these monsters.
Another child murdered by a pit to end the year. Terrible. Adding up 2024, is this an all time record? It seems to be and an by a large margin. I fear as the pit genes just keep getting spread around more and more, this is going to be the new norm until the people rise up to put a stop to this nonsense.
Two dead toddlers in two days.
If they were run over by a bus drivers, people would be screaming to hang bus drivers as a danger to society.
At this point, I dunno what it’s going to take.
I’m curious if these deadly attacks especially when they are on children make people realize that they are putting their own kids in as much danger as if they had a wild animal in their home? When I was around 6 my Dad who was a farmer had been selling rabbits to the local grocery store up in Columbia Falls MT. He had a soft heart, & killing the bunnies, especially when I would adopt them all & beg for the life of everyone on our farm got overwhelming for him so he turned them all lose to live around the barn & other out buildings, which unfortunately attracked a beautiful Canadian lynx. One evening while doing chores the lynx was just a few feet away from my 4 year old brother & I & it just stood there staring at us. So it was decided that they were going to kill the lynx I threw a fit but my dad asked me how would I feel if I wasn’t there to scream & wave my arms to chase the lynx away before he killed my little brother. So I learned pretty young that sometimes you have to do things that make you sad for the safety of your family. Well now that we have the internet I have learned that the Canadian lynx wasn’t going to attack us & in fact they have never attacked people including children. These pit bulls on the other hand have been killing people every single year since they were first introduced into the world and they have no place in this world & never did! So I was just wondering if after a child dies do people who own them start putting them down or at least giving them to the shelters? Or are they all such sick assholes that don’t have the ability to be empathetic with their own children & family?
I have never heard of people giving up their pit when an unrelated person is attacked or killed. They simply fall back on “It’s the owner,” whether or not they have any knowledge of the situation.
Perhaps Colleen or other readers have seen differently. What I see is an almost unbelievable inability to learn from other peoples’ mistakes.
This post has been updated to reflect that the two adults in the home were criminally charged.