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A 27-year-old Massachusetts man was accidentally shot and killed with a crossbow after his neighbor stepped in to try and help rescue him from an apparent dog attack.
The incident began when police in Adams received multiple 911 calls just after noon on Wednesday to report a mauling at a local address involving two mature male pit bulls, the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office said in astatement.
A neighbor who noticed the commotion rushed over to help after hearing someone yell, “Please shoot the dogs,” Harrington said.
The neighbor allegedly grabbed a crossbow he uses for hunting and entered the home, at which point he was at the bottom of a staircase looking up at a pit bull standing on the landing in front of a closed door.
The neighbor shot the dog at the top of the steps with his crossbow, for which he has a license, and hit the dog in the scruff of the neck, the district attorney said. Harrington added that the dog did not die, but police believe the arrow went through the door and struck Jadusingh behind it.
“I think this was an emergency situation. Everything in the investigation indicates that the neighbor was reacting in a very stressful circumstance, was doing what he could to neutralize the dog to protect life,” she said.
Harrington said she did not anticipate any charges being filed against the neighbor, whom she said was “distraught” over the situation, as he was good friends with Jadusingh.
Harrington added that the neighbor knew there was a young child in the home, who was present at the time of the incident but was unharmed.
Once police arrived on the scene, the dogs attacked the responding officers, who eventually shot and killed Max and Derma, Harrington said. One dog died in the house, while the other left the house and ran down the street, and was eventually shot outside.
Max had previously attacked someone in the home in November 2018, and that person received medical attention, Harrington said.
“It really is a chain of very, very unfortunate circumstances,” she said “This is a very unusual case.”
An investigation is still ongoing, and an autopsy is currently underway at the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office.
source: people.com
