A pit bull that killed one dog and injured another in separate incidents last month in Riverside has been euthanized by order of the village’s police chief, officials said Wednesday.
Chief Eugene Karczewski declared the dog, named Sacha, a dangerous animal and ordered it destroyed after a hearing on Tuesday to discuss accounts of the attacks on April 30 and April 12. The dog was euthanized late Tuesday in a Berwyn veterinary clinic where the dog has been kept since the April 30 attack, according to assistant police chief Thomas Weitzel.
In the fatal attack, the pit bull apparently darted out the front door of a home in the 400 block of Selborne Road and charged at a woman who was walking her 10-pound dog on a leash and her infant in a stroller, according to police reports. The woman jumped between the baby stroller and the charging dog and suffered a cut on her face, reports said. The pit bull then attacked the woman’s dog, seriously injuring it, reports said. A Riverside police officer who was dispatched to the scene took the dog to a veterinary clinic in Berwyn, where it died a short time later.
