LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - It was a scary scene this weekend as a dog attacked multiple people and was eventually shot by a police officer in Lake Saint Louis.
Police say the attacks happened Sunday in Founders Park, which sits next to the Stonecrest Subdivision in St. Charles County. A witness told Fox 2 she saw it all begin with a man with a large stick trying to fend off the dog.
When her husband ran out to help, she says, the dog ran towards another older man and started attacking him. The witness then says her husband got the dog's attention and it started attacking him, biting him at least eight times, including a large wound on his leg.
That's when police arrived on the scene and say they saw the dog flee back into the Stonecrest Subdivision. Officers were able to locate the home where the dog resides and knocked on the door to talk to the owner.
That's when two other dogs pushed through the door and escaped the home, along with the dog that was attacking people. That dog ran to a nearby street and attacked a woman who was walking her dog.
A Lake Saint Louis police officer ran over to help when the dog then lunged at him. The officer shot the dog in the leg.
Police say the dog's owner transported the dog to an animal hospital and it's condition wasn't known by police.
“The cops didn’t have a choice, they had to stop it somehow,” a witness told Fox 2. “I was kind of traumatized. The dog just wasn’t quitting. He just wasn’t quitting.”
Other neighbors also said this wasn't the first incident with this owner's dogs.
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