Jeremiah Eshew-Shahan was killed by the family dog, a mastiff-rhodesian mix, on his first birthday. Â Reports say that the young boy tried to pet the 120-pound dog and the dog then sink his teeth into the little boy. Â Jeremiah was rushed to the hospital, but passed away from his injuries Saturday morning. Â Check the pics of Jeremiah and the mastiff and the graphic details after the jump.
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.Â
The dog then attacked the baby, sinking his teeth into Jeremiah’s head and shaking him.
The boy’s grandmother desperately tried to pull Jeremiah out of the mastiff’s jaw while Shahan rushed to save his son.
‘It took me about 20 seconds to run downstairs and I got the dog off of the baby. The baby’s face was torn off,’ Shahan told KSNV.com.
The baby was rushed to St. Rose Dominican Hospital-Siena Campus and then flown by helicopter to UMC’s Trauma Unit, police said.
Jeremiah, who had turned one on Thursday, died from his injuries at approximately 1.45am on Saturday morning.
The six-year-old dog, named Onion, will be put down after he is quarantined for rabies.
The Mastiff had been around the baby since he was born and the family said he had never been aggressive towards people.
Shahan said the pet was a ‘good dog’ who had helped get his mother through her lung cancer.
Police said they are still investigating why the dog attacked the baby.
