ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether an Elizabethton police dog which had to be euthanized had attacked a group of teenagers.
The three 16-year-old boys, who were not identified, told police they were playing in an open grassy field on Saturday when the dog, a Belgian Malinois (MAL’-in-wah), got out of his kennel at the home of K-9 office Shane Darling.
According to a report by the Carter County Sheriff’s Department, the boys said the dog starting biting them and one of the boys started stabbing the dog to get him to stop.
The Johnson City Press reported that the boys suffered dog bites and were taken to the emergency room for treatment. The dog was euthanized on Sunday after suffering numerous injuries.