Woman Injured in Two Dog Bite Attack

October 19, 2011 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports, a woman was attacked by two dogs in Colton while walking her own Sheppard puppies.

According to authorities, two dogs attacked a woman identified as Gina Palumbo was walking her two Sheppard puppies in the 200, block of East O Street in Colton. The woman’s 11-year-old son helped the woman chase the dogs away by using a skateboard, hitting one of the dogs to get it off of his mother.

The dogs have been quarantined at an animal shelter in San Bernardino, and the pair are believed to be American Bulldogs.

LEO says the dogs broke through a back fence and then a second fence to get to Palumbo and the two dogs she was walking.

Palumbo, who was hospitalized, suffered injuries to her leg and chest. She stated that she was afraid of the two large dogs and her son hit one of the dogs with the skateboard causing it to back off, he then slammed the skateboard to the ground, scaring the dogs more.

According to the dog’s owner Joanna Holguin, she witnessed the attack, and the dogs did not listen to her screams for them to stop. She stated she feels like it was her fault, but that it wasn’t; it was the dog's fault.

Palumbo believes that both of the dogs that attacked her should be euthanized.
And according to Colton Police, the owner could face charges of having unlicensed dogs and charges related to having vicious animals. To learn more about dog bite law, call 213.596.9642 at Ehline Law Firm.

Pit Bull Owner Convicted Of Dog Attack On Mailman

October 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)

According to reports by California savage dog bite attorneys, Sheri Moody age 54 of Westminster was convicted in an Orange County court after a biting attack on a mail carrier.

After Moody was found guilty of a misdemeanor of owning a vicious animal, which originally was a felony count, has been sentenced to serve either 30 days in jail or she must perform community service. Moody has also been ordered to pay restitution and according to the rules of the three years of probation she has been placed on she will not be allowed to own any canines for three years. Moody must also give up a mixed breed Shepard canine that she currently owns.

The attack occurred in September 4th of 2007 when the mail carrier David Carroll was delivering mail to the house next door to the Moody home when the pit bull attacked Carroll severely injuring him with numerous bites to the face. The pit bull named Maggie was euthanized after the incident.

According to Raymund Diaz this was not the first incident of an aggressive animal owned by Moody, another of Moody’s pit bull mixes attacked a woman in Moody’s home. Moody appealed a decision of the city of Westminster in a decision that had been made to euthanize the canine, whose name was Brutus. Brutus was euthanized and the woman testified in the current trial.
Diaz stated that this conviction and sentencing is the community speaking, if Moody can not control her animals then the court needs to do it for her.
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