Articles labeled: Toledo

After a neighbor’s dog bit her son in the face and police supposedly refused to take action, a mom took matters into her own hands.

“You’re —– dead,” [Holly Leach] was heard saying as she stormed into the house.

“Holly, stop it. Stop it,” a concerned neighbor yelled. “Come on you guys.”

Neighbors pulled Leach’s daughter away in tears, as the enraged mother lashed out against the woman apparently responsible for the pit bull that bit her boy.

Both women emerged from the home after a minute, “looking roughed up,” Toledo reporter Rob Packer said. The pit bull, however, was still being kept safe inside the home.

Life can be so cruel, so unfair…in a blink of a moment, a mother and her 4 children, ranging from newborn to elementary age, were killed by a drunk driver.

Bethany Griffin, 36, Jordan Griffin, 10, and Verde Griffin, 6 months, all of Parkville, Md., were killed along with Lacie Burkman, 7, and Haley Burkman, 10, both of Redford Township, Mich., near Detroit, according to the Lucas County Coroner’s office.

Both drivers tried to avoid each other, but the crash ripped a side door off the minivan, throwing out some of the victims.

An infant seat wrapped with pink baby blankets landed in the roadway.

“It was among the worst I’ve seen,” assistant fire chief Luis Santiago said.
A man and two other children from the minivan were taken to St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Santiago said.