North Aurora police said a family dog attacked a 6-year-old boy and a man inside a townhouse in the 200-block of Hidden Creek Lane.
NORTH AURORA, Ill. -- Police officers were forced to shoot a dog after it attacked a child then turned on its owner in North Aurora.
Shattered glass at the townhouse was left behind after the terrifying, violent encounter left two people badly-injured and a dog wounded by gunfire. She said her tenant in the Summer Wind subdivision in North Aurora is the owner of the dog, a 5-year-old male purebred pit bull named Maximus. She said her tenant's friend brought her 6-year-old son to the home and they were filling water balloons around 4 p.m. when something set Maximus off. The dog mauled the child, then turned on his owner when he tried to protect the boy.
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