Off-duty Fla. reserve deputy helps save boy’s life after dog attack
By: | Published: 2025-07-27 15:08:00 | Source: www.police1.com
By Olivia Lloyd
The Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.)
WEEKI WACHEE, Fla. — A mom holding her bleeding 5-year-old son who had been mauled by the family’s three large dogs rushed to the home of a deputy in her neighborhood, Florida authorities said.
It may have saved his life.
The boy was flown to a trauma center for treatment after getting help from the quick-thinking deputy and is expected to survive the July 11 attack at a home in Weeki Wachee, according to a July 17 news release from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.
The day of the incident, the mom told deputies her husband was at the store and she was lying down with a cold while her 5-year-old son was in the backyard with his 6-year-old brother, investigators said.
That’s when the family’s…
