'I seen the little girl flat on her back with the bite marks and part of her neck hanging off,' eyewitness Deborah Golden said.
The unidentified victim was riding a bike in an alleyway near her home in the west of the city when the attack happened,. She was taken to the Children's Hospital of Michigan but succumbed to her injuries and was later pronounced dead.
Authorities also said that someone had shot one of the dogs."[It was] a friend of the owners, I was told, that fired a shot at the dog," Detroit policeman Captain Russell Solano told XYWZ. "When I come out of my house, I heard all the screaming and I was aware something bad had happened," Golden told XYWZ."I seen the little girl flat on her back with the bite marks and part of her neck hanging off. I started CPR and I had the dad grab the neck and hold it."
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