10-year-old attacked by pit bull now back home

HARRISON COUNTY -- Austin Beaver, 10, is recuperating at home after receiving more than 100 stitches in his face following a reported attack by a neighborhood pit bull.

He can’t go back to school until a plastic surgeon releases him to resume normal activity, said his mother, Brandy Beaver.

“He has an incision underneath his eye, but he is very lucky he didn’t lose his eye or his ear,” she said. “He has all his limbs and he’s alive.”

Austin, his brother Mason, 8, and friend Michael Horst, 9, have been summoned to appear in court Dec. 12 along with Daniel Catchings, whose dog allegedly attacked them after the dog ran out of Catchings’ home and the boys tried to help catch the dog.    Read Full