Video: Dog Shot By Deputy After Attacking Teen, Elderly Man

SPRING HILL, FL -- The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has released a body cam video of the dog attacking a deputy Thursday morning in Spring Hill.

Warning: The video contains graphic content and offensive language.

Pasco County Sheriff's deputies were called to a home at 15046 Lenway Road in the Shady Hills community of Spring Hill at 6:53 a.m. April 25 after three dogs attacked a 15-year-old boy and an elderly man. The dogs had been roaming in the Crews Lake Park area.

The boy was bit on the leg as he was walking to his school bus stop. His injuries were minor.

However, the elderly man sustained serious injuries requiring stitches in both legs.

When Sheriff's Cpl. Jason Murphy arrived at the scene, one of the dogs tried to attack him as well, and he was forced to shoot the dog. The body cam video worn by Mason shows him shooting one of the dogs. It also shows the elderly man's extensive injuries and the injuries to the teen, who is a neighbor.

Keith Humphrey, the owner of the dogs, said he didn't realize his dogs were loose until he walked out his front door to take his children to school and found sheriff's vehicles parked in front of his house and one of his dogs shot on the front porch. The dog was still alive but seriously injured and Humphrey requested that the dog be humanely euthanized.

Humphrey believes his three adult dogs and their two puppies escaped through a gap in a fence on his property.

He said he is bewildered by the attack.

"They ain't ever bit nobody ever in their lives," he said. "I'm sorry for the families."

The other adult dogs are being held by Pasco County Animal Services for observation. The puppies weren't involved in the attacks and were returned to Humphrey.

Sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll said he isn't sure of the exact breed of the dogs but said he believes they are a breed of bulldog or bulldog mix.