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<\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n CINCINNATI, Ohio\u2013\u2013<\/strong>Warren Houston,\u00a0 45,\u00a0 whose three pit bulls on December 27,\u00a0 2024 killed his biological daughter,\u00a0 three-year-old Kingsley Renee Wright,\u00a0 was on February 11,\u00a0 2025 indicted by a Hamilton County grand jury for involuntary manslaughter, \u00a0reckless homicide,\u00a0 and endangering children.<\/p>\n Wright was on her first overnight visit to the Houston home in the Roselawn district on the north side of Cincinnati, \u00a0Ohio.<\/p>\n A family member told ANIMALS 24-7<\/strong>\u00a0on January 9,\u00a0 2025 that Houston only learned he was Wright\u2019s father in September 2024.<\/p>\n Houston to that point had not been identified in media coverage and online accounts by multiple friends and family members.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cAccording to 911 call recordings and police documents,\u201d\u00a0 wrote Quinlan Bentley and David Ferrara for the February 12,\u00a0 2025 edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em>,\u00a0 Houston \u201ccalled Cincinnati police at 7:50 a.m., \u00a0just after he reported waking up. He said he walked into the living room and found Kingsley lying dead on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s completely tore apart,\u201d Houston told the dispatcher.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter giving his daughter\u2019s description to the dispatcher,\u201d\u00a0 Bentley and Ferrara resumed, \u00a0\u201cwho told him to put away any pets in the home before officers arrived, \u00a0Kingsley\u2019s father said they had terriers, \u00a0and that the dogs were already in their cages.<\/p>\n \u201cHe told the dispatcher that there was one other person in the apartment and they woke up at the same time,\u201d\u00a0 Bentley and Ferrara recounted.\u00a0 \u201cHouston said there did not appear to be a break-in because the front door to the apartment was locked.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Claimed Houston to the dispatcher,\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t understand what went on,\u201d \u00a0Houston said.<\/p>\n Finished Bentley and Ferrara,\u00a0 \u201cHouston was not listed as an inmate at the Hamilton County Justice Center as of Wednesday morning. \u00a0It is currently unclear when he will make his first court appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n Two days after Wright was killed,\u00a0 a poster to the Facebook page of WLWT television in Cincinnati who identified herself as \u201cNicky Lane,\u201d\u00a0 from Lebanon,\u00a0 Tennessee,\u00a0 said \u201cHe is in jail,\u201d\u00a0 apparently meaning Houston,\u00a0 but did not specify who \u201che\u201d was,\u00a0 or cite a source for the information.\u00a0 No arrest associated with the fatal attack on Kingsley Wright had been reported.<\/p>\n (See Pit bull victim Kingsley Wright, age 3, was 70th dog attack death of 2024<\/a>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n In Circleville, \u00a0106 miles northeast across Ohio on I-71,\u00a0 son and mother Adam and Susan Withers,\u00a0 ages 35 and 61, \u00a0are as of the evening of February 12,\u00a0 2025 awaiting a jury verdict on charges of involuntary manslaughter and owning a dangerous dog,\u00a0 brought against them after the Withers\u2019 two pit bulls killed neighbor JoAnn Echelbarger in her flower bed on October 17,\u00a0 2024.<\/p>\n One of the pit bulls was shot by the first responding police officer,\u00a0 in order for him to approach Echelbarger.\u00a0 The other pit bull ran away,\u00a0 killed another dog near Teays Valley East Middle School,\u00a0 menacing the owner,\u00a0 and was finally run over by a Pickway County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy,\u00a0 but survived until shot by the deputy \u201cin the vicinity of a park and another residence, \u00a0which included a dog outside in the yard,\u201d\u00a0 according to an Ashville Police Department media statement.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Between September 8,\u00a0 2020 and January 2024,\u00a0 reported Adam Conn for WCMH in Columbus,\u00a0 Ohio,\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSusan and Adam Withers received as many as seven warnings from their home owners\u2019 association, \u00a0or lawyers representing The Reserve at Ashton Village, \u00a0in Ashville.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the warnings,\u00a0 Conn detailed,\u00a0 came after the pit bulls killed another dog.<\/p>\n Despite the Withers\u2019 contention that the pit bulls were \u201cservice dogs,\u201d\u00a0 a Pickaway County Court of Common Pleas judge on September 11,\u00a0 2024 ordered that both pit bulls be removed \u201cimmediately and permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n The two pit bulls killed Echelbarger five weeks later.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cAdam Withers has previously been charged with owning a dangerous dog twice, \u00a0facing two counts in May 2024 and one count in December. 2023,\u201d\u00a0 Conn continued.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was also charged with owning an unconfined dog in October 2023. \u00a0The dangerous dog charges were dismissed in court, with prosecutors citing insufficient evidence, \u00a0while the defendant paid a fine for the unconfined dog charge and waived his right to a trial.<\/p>\n \u201cSusan Withers,\u201d\u00a0 Conn said,\u00a0 \u201chad no prior charges related to dog ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> Ada Dolores Woolverton. (Legacy.com photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Police in at least five other communities are still investigating recent dog attack fatalities,\u00a0 four of them occurring since January 28,\u00a0 2025,\u00a0 all involving pit bulls,\u00a0 who at this writing have inflicted all 16 of the 16 most recent dog attack deaths.<\/p>\n The multiple dogs responsible for the December 18,\u00a0 2024 death of Ada Delores Woolverton, 88, fatally mauled in her own yard at the edge of Rockdale,\u00a0 Texas, \u00a0have not yet been publicly identified.<\/p>\n Neighbors alleged on social media that the dogs all belonged to a neighbor and were running at large.<\/p>\n The location is about 2,000 feet by road from the Rockdale Dog Shelter & Dog Park,\u00a0 suggesting the possibility of dumped dogs or runaways having attacked Woolverton,\u00a0 who for more than 35 years was a medication assistant at a local nursing home.<\/p>\n The Milam County Sheriff\u2019s Office said only that, \u00a0\u201cDeputies responded to a residence in the 500 block of Beverly Drive and discovered her body,\u201d\u00a0 but another neighbor specified in a social media comment that the dogs came from 523 Beverly Drive.<\/p>\n The listed resident at 523 Beverly Drive,\u00a0 Larry Joe Jackson,\u00a0 64,\u00a0 appears on multiple lists of registered sex offenders.<\/p>\n The dogs allegedly responsible were reportedly rounded up and euthanized.<\/p>\n <\/a> Pit bull at the scene of the fatal attack in Wahiawa, Hawaii.\u00a0 (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Police in Wahiawa,\u00a0 Hawaii have likewise been quiet about a January 28,\u00a0 2025 fatal pit bull attack on a yet to be publicly identified eight-year-old boy,\u00a0 described as having \u201cintellectual disabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n The death was announced five days later.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to Honolulu police, \u00a0the incident happened just after 11 a.m. at a home in the 100 block of Ohai Street,\u201d\u00a0 reported Allyson Blair for Hawaii News Now<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cLaw enforcement sources told HNN Investigates the attack was captured on a home surveillance system,\u201d\u00a0 Blair continued.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re told the child appeared to be alone, \u00a0unattended, \u00a0in a neighbor\u2019s yard when he was mauled by a large dog who was on a chain.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen help arrived, \u00a0the boy didn\u2019t have a pulse. \u00a0First responders managed to revive him and rushed him to the hospital with severe injuries to his head and neck,\u201d\u00a0 Blair finished.<\/p>\n ANIMALS 24-7<\/strong> was able to identify the building to which police responded,\u00a0 a multi-residence dwelling with frequent turnover of occupants,\u00a0 in a neighborhood of multiple occupancy dwellings,\u00a0 but could not establish the exact address of the victim.<\/p>\n <\/a> Lavonne Hoff (right) with daughter Jessica Lee Hoff (left) (Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cThe Pueblo County Sheriff\u2019s Office is continuing an investigation into the death of 76-year-old LaVonne Hoff, \u00a0found dead in a Colorado City residence on February 3,\u00a0 2025,\u201d\u00a0 reported Ashleigh Quintana for KOAA in Colorado Springs,\u00a0 Colorado,\u00a0 four days later.<\/p>\n \u201cInside the residence,\u201d\u00a0 Quintana said,\u00a0 \u201cpolice found \u2018several dogs loose inside the home along with at least a dozen more dogs in cages,\u2019\u201d\u00a0 who were impounded \u201cby the Sheriff\u2019s Office in collaboration with Animal Law Enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n The Sheriff\u2019s Office \u201cworked with Animal Law Enforcement to seize numerous dogs from the home and a related property,\u201d\u00a0 according to the Pueblo County Sheriff\u2019s Office in an official statement.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Updated Brianna Leonard for KKTV 11 News at Noon<\/em> on February 11,\u00a0 2025,\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cPolice said they determined that the dog owner had been dragged to the ground by two pit bulls.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice said one of the dogs was still \u2018extremely\u2019 aggressive and not fully secured by her harness.<\/p>\n \u201cPolice said they later discovered that a neighbor attempted to help the owner during the dogfight and was bitten on the hand,\u201d\u00a0 Leonard relayed.<\/p>\n \u201cOne person was taken to the hospital and both dogs were secured by the Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region, \u00a0according to police,\u201d\u00a0 Leonard finished.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n LaVonne Hoff appears to have shared the Colorado City address and several others in recent years with her daughter, \u00a0former bankruptcy attorney Jessica Lee Hoff,\u00a0 47.<\/p>\n According to court records,\u00a0 \u201cIn May 2022, \u00a0the State Bar of Texas disbarred Hoff for engaging in professional misconduct. \u00a0The discipline was effective on May 23, 2022. \u00a0Hoff did not alert Colorado disciplinary authorities about her Texas disbarment.\u201d<\/p>\n On August 4,\u00a0 2022,\u00a0 Jessica Hoff was \u201carrested by the Fremont County Sheriff\u2019s Office on a U.S. Marshal Hold.\u201d<\/p>\n On April 27,\u00a0 2023,\u00a0 Jessica Hoff was disbarred in Colorado for \u201creciprocal discipline,\u00a0 which calls for imposition of the same discipline as that imposed in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n On January 23,\u00a0 2024,\u00a0 the Colorado Commissioner of Agriculture won a temporary restraining order against Jessica Hoff,\u00a0 enjoining her from operating \u201can unlicensed pet animal shelter or sanctuary by harboring,\u00a0 sheltering,\u00a0 or otherwise possessing more than fifteen dogs,\u00a0 cats,\u00a0 or combination thereof,\u00a0 in a central location,\u00a0 without a Colorado Pet Care & Animal Facilities Act permit.<\/p>\n Further developments in the LaVonne Hoff death case are anticipated.<\/p>\n <\/a> Amanda Hutchins-Born. (Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Amanda Hutchins-Born,\u00a0 46,\u00a0 appears to have been the victim of a February 6, \u00a02025 fatal mauling on Boyd Road near Echols,\u00a0 Alabama,\u00a0 reportedly \u201cwhile feeding a pack of dogs as their owner was out of town.\u201d<\/p>\n While her name was not released,\u00a0 her age,\u00a0 date of death,\u00a0 and location of death match.<\/p>\n The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff\u2019s Office,\u00a0 NorthStar Emergency Medical Services,\u00a0 and the Echola Volunteer Fire Department all responded to a 911 call circa 9:00 a.m. about the pack attacking a woman in front of a property in the 13000 block of rural Boyd Road,\u00a0 Captain Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit told media.<\/p>\n \u201cThe mauling occurred in the yard and on the property that the dogs belonged to. \u00a0The woman came to the residence to feed the dogs for the owner who was out of town, Kennedy said,\u201d\u00a0 wrote Jasmine Hollie for the Tuscaloosa News<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cHe said the woman\u2019s death appears to be a non-criminal incident and out of respect for the woman\u2019s family, \u00a0no other details will be released,\u201d\u00a0 Hollie added.<\/p>\n A search of NewspaperArchive.com<\/em> indicates that the phrase \u201cout of respect for the family,\u201d in multiple variants involving names of deceased persons not being released,\u00a0 was occasionally used in reports of suicides between 1880 and 1924,\u00a0 but dropped out of print thereafter until 2011,\u00a0 when it abruptly and frequently reappeared in accounts of dog attack deaths\u2013\u2013mostly pit bull attack deaths involving family members.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit conducted an investigation at the scene. \u00a0They discovered that the dogs belonged to the residence, \u00a0where the woman was visiting to feed the animals while their owner was out of town, \u00a0police said,\u201d\u00a0 according to multiple media accounts.<\/p>\n Acquaintances of the victim posted to Facebook that the victim had been visiting the property for as long as a year to feed the dogs.<\/p>\n <\/a> Pack of dogs believed to have killed<\/strong><\/em> Offered Hannah Clements Shirley on Facebook,\u00a0 \u201cI live right beside this place and momma dog was a pit mix. \u00a0The puppies,\u00a0 maybe a few years old,\u00a0 were pit mixed with many other things. \u00a0Those dogs\u00a0were starving and freezing when it was cold!<\/p>\n \u201cI watched them attack and kill one of their own or someone else\u2019s dog,\u201d\u00a0 Shirley said.\u00a0 \u201cI did report it to the sheriff office. \u00a0I told them that day,\u00a0 January 20,\u00a0 2025, \u00a0they were going to kill somebody. \u00a0I also can\u2019t tell you how many I\u2019ve seen hit and killed by cars!<\/p>\n \u201cI saw the cop who came out the day I called,\u201d\u00a0 Shirley added.\u00a0 \u201cHe sprayed his pepper spray to keep them back and it didn\u2019t faze them.<\/p>\n <\/a> Renona Ewing.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n \u201cEight to 10 dogs in a pack like they were is not a good situation,\u201d\u00a0 Shirley continued. \u00a0\u201cNo interaction with people at all besides when someone fed them. \u00a0And we don\u2019t know how often they were being fed.\u201d<\/p>\n Added Taren Finnen Channell,\u00a0 posting a photo,\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019ve been roaming all hunting season and have come 10 miles from Boyd road.\u00a0 We have them on our hunting cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n Identifying herself as \u201cwith Amanda Hutchins-Born,\u201d\u00a0 her sister Lisa Hope posted to Facebook that,\u00a0 \u201cOur sweet Sister was called home today where her body will forever be whole.\u201d<\/p>\n Thirty=six miles north of the Boyd Road fatality,\u00a0 in the same county,\u00a0 dog breeder Renona Ewing, \u00a062, \u00a0was killed in a pen on July 11,\u00a0 2024, \u00a0by her own \u201cBully XL\u201d pit bull.<\/p>\n <\/a> (Beth Clifton collage)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Michael Arthur Fabjon, \u00a0Jr., \u00a049, \u00a0of Panama City,\u00a0 subject of the most recent fatal pit bull attack fatality under current police investigation,\u00a0 \u00a0died on February 9, 2025,\u00a0 five days after he was mauled outside his home by a pit bull named Gunner,\u00a0 belonging to neighbor Brendan Murphy.<\/p>\n Murphy \u201cwas initially charged with resisting arrest without violence, \u00a0and obstruction, \u00a0for blocking animal control officers from entering his home. \u00a0The Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office says they are not pursuing any other charges against Murphy,\u201d\u00a0 reported Grace Velez for WMBB television of Panama City.<\/p>\n \u201cFabjon spent five days in Ascension Sacred Heart Bay\u2019s intensive care unit. \u00a0His mother has retained Panama City attorney Zachary Taylor with the Manuel & Thompson law firm,\u201d\u00a0 Velez said, \u00a0\u201cin what is now a wrongful death claim.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/a> Brendan Murphy and his killer pit bull Gunner.\u00a0 (Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n Fabjon was outside with his dog,\u00a0 also a pit bull, talking to a female neighbor,\u00a0 according to the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office incident report,\u00a0 when \u201ca fight broke out\u201d between Fabjon\u2019s pit bull and Murphy\u2019s pit bull Gunner.<\/p>\n Gunner attacked Fabjon after Fabjon and Murphy intervened in the fight.\u00a0 Murphy reportedly contended that Fabjon was fatally attacked by his own pit bull,\u00a0 but Gunner was subsequently euthanized.<\/p>\nFour new pit bull fatalities under investigation in Colorado,\u00a0 Hawaii,\u00a0 Alabama & Florida<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cShe\u2019s completely torn apart\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand what went on\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nKilled in her flower bed<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nClaimed killer pit bulls were \u201cservice dogs\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nCharged twice,\u00a0 got one slap on the wrist<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAda Delores Woolverton<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nEight-year-old in Hawaii<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nLaVonne Hoff<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cDragged to the ground\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nDisbarred & rapped for unlicensed shelter<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nAmanda Hutchins-Born<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cRespect\u201d as cover-up<\/h2>\n
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victim in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<\/strong><\/em>
(Taren Finnen Channell Facebook photo)<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n\u201cMomma dog was a pit mix\u201d<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nRenona Ewing was killed by her own pit bull 36 miles north<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\nMichael Arthur Fabjon, \u00a0Jr.<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cA fight broke out\u201d<\/h2>\n