Detroit victim Harold Phillips was the third of 76 U.S. dog attack deaths in 2024, all listed below DETROIT, Michigan––Pit bull owner Roy Goodman, 41, was on January 3, 2025 sentenced to serve from two and a half to 15 years in prison for the January 31, 2024 mauling death of neighbor Harold Phillips, 35. […]
Pit bulls kill four in last two days of January 2024
Detroit pit bull victim Harold Phillips dies after four days on life support INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana; BLACKFOOT, Idaho; DETROIT, Michigan; OCEAN VIEW, Hawaii––Less than 48 hours before January 2024 might have become the first month since November 2020 without a pit bull-inflicted human fatality occurring somewhere around the U.S., Carlon Galloway, Willie Mundine, Harold Phillips, […]
Detroit animal control & humane society dog attack prevention fails again
When a nine-year humane society president and a four-year animal control agency chief in the same city both have had more dog attack fatalities on their watch than anyone else in comparable positions ever, 85% by pit bulls, what does that tell you? DETROIT, Michigan––Lovell Anderson, 4, playing in his own fenced Detroit backyard under […]
Michigan Humane Society names Matt Pepper to succeed Cal Morgan as chief
Will Michigan Humane become Sergeant Pepper’s lonely dog & cat club band? DETROIT––The Michigan Humane Society on August 13, 2014 named Matt Pepper, 38, to succeed Cal Morgan as president and chief executive officer. A Michigan native who earned a B.A. in wildlife biology at Grand State University, Pepper had […]