The Brief
- An off-duty St. Petersburg police officer is being credited with saving a two-month-old baby after law enforcement said a neighbor’s rottweiler attacked the child.
- The infant was transported to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Pete for a laceration that needed stitches and is recovering.
- Manatee County Animal Welfare continues to investigate the incident.
PARRISH, Fla. – An off-duty police officer is being hailed as a hero after leaping a fence to save a two-month-old infant from a neighbor’s rottweiler Saturday morning.
The backstory:
Dale Johnson, a St. Petersburg police officer, was preparing for work when he heard what he described as “the most blood-curdling screams” coming from a few houses down from his Parrish home.…