Baby's first birthday party turns to tragedy when he is killed by family's mastiff dog

A baby boy has died after he was attacked by his family’s mastiff dog during his first birthday party.


A day after turning one, Jeremiah Eshew-Shahan was at his grandmother’s house in Las Vegas when he crawled over to the dog – a mastiff-rhodesian mix weighing about 120 pounds – and started to pet him. 

The dog then attacked the baby, sinking his teeth into Jeremiah’s head and shaking him.

The boy’s distraught father, Chris Shahan, believes Jeremiah, who was just learning to walk, tried to grab the dog’s fur to stand up when the animal turned vicious.        Full Read