A 50-pound pit bull pounced on the 2-year-old son of Steelers linebacker James Harrison in the family's Franklin Park backyard, repeatedly biting the child's leg and refusing to let go, a friend said Friday.
Lisa Ripi, a family friend of Harrison's, said she was with James Harrison III and the child's mother during the attack Thursday afternoon. The dog, named Patron, had just been released from his backyard kennel and was running around the yard when the baby started crying, Ripi said.
"He was playing and then the baby cried and he just went after him," Ripi said. "And I thought he was kinda like just playing, jumping on him. But he started to grab at the baby and I saw some blood and (the baby's mother) just fell on top of him and she was screaming for me to take her baby." Continue
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