APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old boy has died after his family’s pit bull attacked him at a home in Southern California
The San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said in a statement Sunday that 3-year-old Omar Martinez was declared dead at Saint Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley.
Authorities answered a 911 call Saturday afternoon reporting that a boy had been attacked by a dog and had stopped breathing.
Paramedics found the boy unresponsive and took him to the hospital, where he died about two hours later.