SEVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Four Rottweilers attacked an 8-year-old boy in central Michigan, and his mother said they would have killed her son if not for a construction worker who came to the rescue.
The dogs attacked Ethan Nokes, of Riverdale, on Monday in the fenced yard of a relative in Gratiot County’s Seville Township, state police said. The boy was familiar with the dogs and was in the yard with a brother, police said.
“They were out to kill him, no question,” Ethan’s mother, Doris Gifford, told WWTV.
Kenneth Hansen, who owns a construction business and was working nearby, heard Ethan’s screams, ran over and jumped the fence into the yard.