Bryan County Sheriff Clyde Smith identified the toddler killed after being attacked and mauled by her family's seven pit bulls in north Bryan County Wednesday afternoon as Monica Renee Laminack this morning.
According to Bryan County Deputy Sheriff James Beatty a call was placed to 911 at 6:24 p.m. yesterday reporting the incident but when the EMTs arrived at the Elm Road home the child was already dead.
"When we got here and spoke to EMS, they told us that when they got here, she was already cold. There was nothing they could do," Beatty said Wednesday.
The attack was discovered when Laminack's grandmother woke up, looked out a back window and saw the dogs with the girl. The grandmother and others rushed outside to pull the dogs off the child, however their actions were too late to save her Beatty said.
How Laminack, who would have turned 2-years-old in June, ended up the backyard alone with the dogs is unknown.
All seven dogs were euthanized yesterday. Smith said this morning that he took full responsibility for putting the dogs down.