By Heather Rawlyk
The Capital
EDGEWATER, Md. — County police shot an aggressive pit bull in the muzzle yesterday after the dog chased paramedics and officers who were trying to assist its injured owner inside her Edgewater home.
The emergency crew had been called to the home in the Southdown Shores community to assist a 70-year-old woman who had fallen and injured herself, said Division Chief Michael Cox, a county Fire Department spokesman. Posted on a large tree in the center of the driveway at the house is a black and orange sign that says, “Beware of dog.”
The two paramedics got out of the ambulance and began walking past the sign, but were stopped in their tracks by a pit bull. The dog chased the paramedics back to their vehicle, Cox said. An officer was forced to Taser the animal after it went after police, said Justin Mulcahy, a county police spokesman. When the dog continued to go after officers, Mulcahy said, police shot the pit bull in the muzzle.
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