Portland 6 year old boy, Loyalty Charles Scott mauled to death by two large dogs after being dropped off by his grandmother at caretaker and dog advocate, Koko Miller’s home to be taken to school.
A 6-year-old boy dropped off at his caretaker’s Portland, Oregon home earlier this month only to be mauled to death by two dogs at the residence has been identified and pictured for the first time by family members who are ‘turned upside down’ by his loss.
Loyalty Charles Scott, affectionately known as ‘Mookie,’ died after two Great Dane-mastiff mixes attacked the six year old in the garage of a residence where his grandmother dropped him before school on the morning of December 5.
The boy’s body was found inside a garage adjoining the home where the homeowner’s two dogs – a large Great Dane and mastiff mixes were kept, said Portland Police Bureau spokesperson Mike Benner.
Animals euthanized
The caretaker, Koko Miller had gone into the garage as the boy waited inside the house. At some point the boy opened the door to the garage where upon he was set upon by one of the dogs according to the caretaker The second dog was also involved in the attack, but wasn’t ‘the primary aggressor,’ Benner said according to Oregon Live.
The woman, since tried pulling the dog off the boy and grabbed a gun, but didn’t shoot, Benner said.
The woman’s hands were injured while trying to stop the attack, Benner said. She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Miller — a high school classmate of Loyalty’s grandmother, Rena Scott, is the self-professed owner and operator of a company called ‘K-9 Protection.’
The Multnomah County Animal Services took custody of the animals with both canines euthanized, KPTV reported.
A third dog that was also in the home at the time of the attack is being held by Multnomah County Animal Services pending further investigation.
‘We understand that the homeowner/dog owner did everything in her power to stop this attack, at some point even grabbing a gun. It never got that far,’ Benner told FOX 12.
‘She did everything she could to save this boy’s life.’
Charges?
Prior to the fatal dog attack, Multnomah County Animal Services had received no complaints involving that address and had no record of dispatching officers there, according to county spokesperson Alicia Mendez.
The caretaker who lived at the Northeast Portland address with her husband is friends with the boy’s grandmother, KOIN reported. The caretaker routinely took the 6 year old boy to school.
The Police Bureau’s child abuse detectives are leading the investigation, with assistance from homicide detectives, Benner said.
‘I speak for everyone in the bureau when I say our hearts break for the boy, for his family, for his friends,’ Benner said. ‘It’s just unimagineable.’
News of the tragedy shocked locals.
‘They’re fine, they’re so friendly, they’d be jumping on me,’ neighbor Sergey Dengub, who said he interacted with the dogs before, told KOIN.
‘They were big dogs, but they were really friendly dogs,’ he added.
‘I spoke to [the owner’s husband] today…he is very stressed.’
It is too early to say whether the dog owner will face criminal charges, Benner said.
