{"id":1460896,"date":"2025-11-25T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1460896"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:11:31","slug":"pit-bull-dogs-in-fatal-attack-are-to-be-euthanized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1460896","title":{"rendered":"Dogs in fatal attack are to be euthanized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/riley-house-202x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1460897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/riley-house-202x200.jpg 202w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/riley-house.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><strong>Update<\/strong>:   Smith County officials announced on Tuesday that the hearing scheduled for Wednesday to determine the fate of the dogs has been canceled. Instead, the involved parties reached an agreement to euthanize the two remaining pit bulls. <\/p>\n<p>TYLER \u2013 The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a 23-year-old Madison Riley Hull was killed by three pit bull dogs that attacked her in Tyler on Friday. According to our news partner KETK,  deputies responded to  a call  at a residence near Northwood Drive  and Shadywood Drives in Tyler at around 4:15 p.m.  The first deputy on scene saw Hull lying in the backyard of a home as three pit bulls attacked her. The officer was reportedly able to shoot and kill one of the pit bulls, which caused the other two dogs to run away. They were able to remove her body from the backyard, but she died because of her injuries from the dog attack.<\/p>\n<p>A sheriff&#8217;s office release said the other two dogs were handled by Smith County Animal Control. Investigators  said the woman was dog-sitting the pit bulls that attacked her, since the home\u2019s owners were out of town. The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office is investigating the attack and an autopsy has been ordered. The deputy attacked also received minor injuries was treated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Smith County officials announced on Tuesday that the hearing scheduled for Wednesday to determine the fate of the dogs has been canceled. Instead, the involved parties reached an agreement to euthanize the two remaining pit bulls. TYLER \u2013 The Smith County Sheriff\u2019s Office said a 23-year-old Madison Riley Hull was killed by three pit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1460896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dogs in fatal attack are to be euthanized<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1460922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/riley-house-202x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 08:55:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/11\/riley-house-202x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461173,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460896\/revisions\/1461173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1460922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}