Yale prof’s dogs to be euthanized after fatally mauling woman
NEW HAVEN, Conn. » A Yale Medical School professor’s two dogs are being euthanized after they mauled a Connecticut woman to death.
New Haven police said today that the two American bulldog mixes will be put down after 53-year-old Jocelyn Winfrey succumbed to her injuries a day earlier. The dogs have been quarantined since the June 20 attack.
The attack happened when Winfrey and 36-year old Hamilton Hicks, the dogs’ owner, walked onto his property and Hicks tried unsuccessfully to pull the dogs off Winfrey.
Police say they’ve closed their investigation and charged Hicks with possessing three bags of crack cocaine.
The city says the two dogs were properly registered and vaccinated, and there were no prior complaints against them.
Hicks and Yale Medical School didn’t immediately comment to requests for comment.
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The dog owner should be punished severely and never allowed to get a pension and loose her position.
the dog owner is a dude.
“the two American bulldog mixes will be put down after 53-year-old Jocelyn Winfrey succumbed to her injuries a day earlier. The dogs have been quarantined since the June 20 attack.” This makes it sound like the decision to put the dogs down was based on the woman actually dying — but aren’t the dogs just as dangerous, even if she hadn’t “succumbed to her injuries”? Is that what they were waiting for?
What, a medical college professor arrested for possession of crack-cocaine? Height of liberalism?
a teacher of Psychiatry no less.
…”Police say they’ve closed their investigation and charged Hicks with possessing three bags of crack cocaine.”
Jocelyn Winfrey dies a horrific death! Hope her family can sue Hicks for wrongful death or something…unless they are forgiving.
Why hasn’t Hicks been charged with something more than possession of crack cocaine like murder, negligent homicide, manslaughter or some such thing?
He didn’t sic the dogs on the victim and in fact tried to pull them off, but was unsuccessful. This is more of a civil tort case where proving negligence only requires a preponderance of the evidence.
This is the type of breed the Maui Humane Society protects and promotes, despite so much evidence that pit bull and bull type mixes can be dangerous to people and pets. Almost all of the dogs available for adoption on Maui are some type of bull mix, and they even send them to the mainland. They may seem docile and well behaved in most situations, but once the bull type breeds get triggered by some stimuli, their vicious response is almost impossible to control. What a horrible death for this woman, but neither the first nor last by the jaws of the bull breeds.
Why don’t they just say, “Yale Medical School Professor, Hamilton Hicks…?”