“The officer arrived on the scene and the dog was actively attacking two victims,” he says.
A North Carolina woman, her husband and a police officer were attacked over the weekend by a pit bull that was living at their neighbor’s house. Rocky Mount Police Department Corporal Ricky Jackson tells PEOPLE that officers received a call around noon that the pit bull had attacked the couple. The neighbor Julie Proctor told CBS17 that the pit bull, Cosmo, belonged to her grandson. Jackson says the incident occurred on the neighbor’s property and the dog was not tied up at the time of the attack. “The officer exited her patrol vehicle and the dog turns on her and bites her in the thigh,” he says. “The officer fired twice and struck the dog once to stop the attack.”