Vermilion Parish Police Jury has to decide if dog that bit a boy, lives or dies

The Vermilion Parish Police Jury General Needs Committee voted to let a mixed breed dog live despite it biting a 12-year-old on the leg as he ran from the dog.
Minutes after the police jury room cleared dealing with the death of three dogs, April Brisco addressed the jurors about keeping her dog, which has some pit bull in him, alive.
She told the jurors she has owned the dog for three years and had never had a incident with the dog.
Her dog, named Gates, is being held at the Rabies/Animal Control Center after it was put in custody by a warden from the rabies/control center.
The dog was brought to the shelter after it bit a 12-year-old boy on the leg at 3 p.m.
According to the rabies/animal control report obtained by the Meridional, the 12-year-old boy was riding his skateboard when he noticed the dog running towards him. The boy, according to the report, took off running away from the dog and that is when the dog ran up to him and bit him on the back of his leg.
Brisco told the jurors the her dog ran out of her apartment door and then stopped when her daughter called his name. The dog was walking back to the apartment door when the 12-year-old boy came around the corner on his skateboard. The kid saw the dog and shouted in fear. The dog began chasing him and caught up to him.
Pictures were taken of the dog bite by the warden. The pictures showed to teeth marks in the boy’s calf and blood seeping out. The child was taken to Abbeville General Hospital for treatment.
Brisco does not deny her dog bit the 12-year-old after it ran out of her apartment on Rodeo Road.
The rabies control center has the choice of declaring the dog dangerous or vicious. If the dog is declared vicious, it has to be put down, according to police jury policy. Pam Monceaux, after investigating the incident, declared the dog to be vicious because of the dog biting a 12-year-old.
However, the 12-year-old who was bit, did not want the dog killed because his friend owned the dog. The boy read a letter to the police jurors as to why he did not want the dog put down.
Police Juror Wayne Touchet, after listening, made a motion to reverse rabies/animal control ruling of the dog being vicious and say the dog is “dangerous.” By being “dangerous” the dog gets to live.
Not all police jurors wanted to change the dog from being vicious to dangerous.
“What if this would have been a two year old?,” asked juror Kevin Sagrera. “We would not be talking about changing it. I am not in favor of changing it. “
Sagrera and juror Errol Domingues, on the committee, voted against changing the dog from vicious to dangerous.
Monday night the entire police juror will have the final say when they vote on it.