Three people, including a Sedgwick County sheriff’s deputy, were injured this morning in what the Sheriff’s Office described as a vicious dog attack south of Wichita in Oaklawn.
Just after 10 a.m., Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported dog attack in the 4600 block of South Hemlock in the Oaklawn neighborhood. In a media release, public Information officer Branden Stitt said the incident began when a 69-year-old woman went to visit her son, who lives in the neighborhood. The dogs, which were inside the home, bit her. As she ran from the home, the media release describes, the dogs chased after her and attacked a nearby 18-year-old man.
Stitt wrote that when deputies arrived at the scene, they found 10 to 15 dogs believed to be Boston terriers running loose in the neighborhood…