Gruesome new details revealed about dog attack on 3-year-old Minnesota boy who will soon be taken off life support

Bystanders armed themselves with whatever they could find to fight off two pit bull mixes that were bringing a young boy to the brink of death.

A recently filed court report revealed the harrowing details of the incident, as the fate of three-year-old Covil Allen of Minnesota is all but sealed.

The court documents also revealed that the dogs were not pure pit bulls, but a mix of pit bull and American bulldog.

This breed of dog, known as the American Bully, has particularly powerful jaws that can inflict more damage than any other breed.

This likely proved fatal for Covil, whose condition remains critical. His family has made the difficult decision to donate his organs after deciding to withdraw life support as they said he was not expected to survive. His mother was also injured in the July 19 attack but is expected to recover.

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“It was adults in the area who began defending the three-year-old by using hammers and pickaxes to lure the dogs away from the three-year-old,” the filing states after the incident on N. Brooklyn Park Drive.

The emergency services arrived and immediately provided the boy with medical assistance, the file continued. They described how he felt afterwards. taken to hospital by ambulance with “critical” injuries.

Police Inspector Elliot Faust further wrote that the dogs were not just American Bullies, but of the “XL variety.”

He pointed out that “this breed is banned in the UK”, although it is not officially recognised as a separate breed.

Described as dogs with a “muscular body and a chunky head,” they have been bred to stand at times astonishing 58cm tall, compared to the 43-50cm of a “classic” Bully.

They were banned in England and Wales in 1991; similar regulations are being drafted in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

NHS consultant Richard Baker later said that the dogs’ powerful jaws caused more severe wounds than any other, regularly resulting in broken bones, skin flakes and nerve damage.

That was the case last week for Covil and his mother, Tasha Vega, when they visited a home in the 7500 block of N. Brooklyn Park Drive where the dogs were for sale.

One of them attacked Covil in the backyard, whereupon a second one joined him, police said.

Faust further revealed that discussions with city leaders about the attack were already underway, writing: “It is a problem in our community.”

“We had more potentially dangerous dogs this year than last year.”

His comments apparently referred to the attack on a seven-year-old girl on Tuesday in the 7500 block of N. Janelle Avenue, just a few miles away.

According to police, the girl suffered superficial injuries. Officers added that they killed the dog when it tried to attack a boy.

Officials said the dog was running free when it attacked the girl, as was the case in the attack on Covil.

The two mutts attacked the boy and his mother until onlookers managed to kill one of the dogs and injure the other. The surviving dog was taken to an animal care facility where he was later euthanized.

Covil’s condition remains critical. His family announced on Wednesday that they had begun the painful preparations for the boy’s organ donation.

They shared a heartbreaking still image of relatives’ hands over the boy’s body in his hospital bed, where he remained hooked up to a series of tubes on the brink of death.

His mother has had two surgeries and a third is on the way to repair her calf, which also required a skin graft

In the meantime, Faust said investigators are working to submit the case to prosecutors “for review in the near future,” along with this week’s other dog bite incident.

The boy’s family has already said goodbye and plans to donate his organs in the coming days when life support is stopped.

They said doctors determined his injuries were too severe for survival.

According to the family’s latest update on Friday, he was still alive.

A GoFundMe campaign started by the family has so far raised $46,261 of the $50,000 goal.

“This will honor Covil’s life and save the lives of other children in the hope that no other parent will have to endure the pain they are experiencing,” the organizers wrote.

They shared a series of photos of the toddler and added on Friday: “You are so loved Covil.”