Updated: Feb 13, 2009 12:40 PM
Steve Jefferson/Eyewitness News
Indianapolis - The owner of the two pit bulls who attacked an Indianapolis great grandmother went to court Friday. The grandmother herself went back to surgery. Dog owner Lee Carroll ignored reporter questions leaving the courtroom Friday morning. Carroll heard charges against him for a vicious dog attack on his neighbor Brenda Hill.
The 61-year-old victim is undergoing more surgery after doctors removed her lower left leg. Her son, Greg Gilbert, said doctors want to make sure there is no infection. The attacked happened as Hill took out her trash. Prosecutors say Lee Carroll's two pit bulls dragged her off the porch. Prosecutors filed two counts for Failure to Restrain a Dog Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and two counts of Harboring a Non-Immunized Dog.
Within days of animal control officers euthanizing his two pit bulls, Animal Care and Control Director Doug Ray announced a new policy to adopt out certain pit bulls. Greg Gilbert is concerned about the new policy. "To me you are releasing vicious animals back in to the community. To me that doesn't make sense," Gilbert said.
In the probable cause affidavit, prosecutors say Lee Carroll got his dogs off Brenda Hill, said he was sorry and walked away as she lay on the ground for another 20 minutes. "It is a serious case. Brenda Hill was taking out her trash when she was attacked by two pit bulls. She almost lost her life," said Mario Massillamany, Marion County prosecutor's office.
Carroll is scheduled to come back to court in April to defend his former pets' actions. Lee Carroll goes back to court for a pretrial hearing April first. For now the judge ordered him to place a litter of puppies bred from his former pets into someone else's care.
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