Photo: GoFundMe
Last Friday morning, Fresno police responded to a home and found a boy suffering from dog bites, Lt. Mark Hudson said at a press conference later that day. Officers performed CPR on the boy and took him to a local medical center, where he was pronounced dead.
“We feel like we’re in a dream right now. It’s just hard to fathom right now,” Ayden Palmerin, the boy’s uncle, toldKGPE. “A little boy passing especially the way he passed. It’s just terrible.”
Hudson said Jaysiah was in his family’s font yard when two Rottweilers came into the yard and attacked him.
The dogs had escaped from their own yard, KGPE reports.
When other children inside saw what was happening, they alerted Jaysiah’s grandmother. She ran outside to try and save Jaysiah but was also attacked, Hudson said.
“It took the grandfather, who was also in the house, to get out and use a hose on these dogs to get the dog off the [boy],” Hudson said.
The dogs fled the scene but were later located and taken to the SPCA, Hudson said. They were latereuthanized,WDSU reports.
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“We don’t have any past history with them and we did check all our databases and there is nothing at that location. But they did seem to want to get out of that backyard where they were located at,” Walter Salvari, a spokesperson with the Central California SPCA, told the station.
Jaysiah’s family shared memories of the vibrant boy.
“Jaysiah was a lovable little boy. He laughed and smiled, bringing joy and happiness to everyone he touched. He loved hearing music and enjoyed waking up his grandparents to start his day,” the family wrote on a GoFundMe page.
Jaysiah’s aunt, Rocio Lopez, told KGPE she will never forget her nephew.
“Very gentle, very sweet. He had a beautiful smile and he would melt your heart,” Lopez said.
source: people.com
