HENDERSON \u2013 Rusk County authorities are investigating the death of a youngster that was attacked by a pit bull. Kaden Muckleroy, 2, was attacked in his grandfather\u2019s yard on County Road 421 around 11:00 Wednesday morning. At the time of the attack, the dog had been chained to a tree. The boy was later pronounced dead at East Texas Medical Center-Henderson. Following the attack, the grandfather, Kelvin Muckleroy, is said to have turned over the dog, and over two dozen other dogs he had kept in a kennel, to Rusk County authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HENDERSON \u2013 Rusk County authorities are investigating the death of a youngster that was attacked by a pit bull. Kaden Muckleroy, 2, was attacked in his grandfather\u2019s yard on County Road 421 around 11:00 Wednesday morning. At the time of the attack, the dog had been chained to a tree. The boy was later pronounced … Continue reading Toddler Killed by Pit Bull<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 13:58:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51372","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51589,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51372\/revisions\/51589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}