New Orleans considering pit bull ban

Attacks Prompt Pit-Bull Ban Debate
POSTED: 9:37 am CST February 5, 2008

OBERLIN, La. -- The Allen Parish Police Jury and Kinder officials are taking closer looks at the kinds of pets residents own in the wake of a fatal mauling in Longville in Beauregard Parish and an incident in which a police officer shot a dog after it attacked him.
Both incidents involved pit bull dogs.
Monday, Kinder's Town Council introduced a proposal to amend its vicious-animal laws to ban pit bulls, and the police jury has placed discussion of a similar ban on its Feb. 19 agenda.
A spokesman for the Beauregard Parish sheriff's office said Kelli Chapman, 24, died of bite trauma and blood loss.

Chapman had injuries to her forearms, indicating possible defensive wounds.
Deputies said the pit bulls -- a 4-year-old male and 1-year-old female -- slept with the family and were in the house when her husband, Jason Chapman, left for work.

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