Abbeville County Sheriff’s investigator, Lt. Jeffrey Hines, also revealed in the new testimony that dogs belonging to Justin Minor, 36, had also attacked someone else on Christmas Eve. The lawmaker shared the details the same day he told the court about the “terrible” pit bull attack on Kyleen Waltman, 39, in front of Minor’s property in northwestern Columbia last month, according to WYFF 4. “She had bites from the top of her head to the bottom of her legs, including her entire body,” Hines told the court. “It was one of the most horrific animal attacks I have ever seen in my career.” Body shots showed Waltman being transported on a stretcher with “the entire triceps removed and nothing but the bone in her left arm,” Hines said, according to the report. A farmer saw the end of the attack and was about to be attacked when he got off his tractor to help Waltman, according to Hines. The dogs eventually disbanded when the Good Samaritan fired a gun to scare them, according to the investigator. Owner Justin Minor also had dogs that attacked a person last December. Abbeville Co. Sheriff’s Office According to Abbeville County Sheriff’s investigator, Lieutenant Jeffrey Hines, Waltman had “bitten from the top of her head to the bottom of her legs.” GoFundMe Hines reportedly testified that Minor’s property was not enclosed and that his many dogs roamed the area freely. Animal control officers had previously abducted 11 dogs from his land, the article said. Hines also testified that Minor told police he wanted to euthanize his dogs after they killed his chickens, saying “when a dog tastes blood, that’s it,” but his wife believed they could be trained, according to local medium. Waltman had “nothing but the bone in her left hand” after the attack. Facebook / Kyleen Waltman The lieutenant added that a neighbor told investigators he was afraid to go out because Minor told him “these dogs will bite anyone”. Local envoys also reported an earlier attack on a minor Minor dog on Christmas Eve, according to Hines. “No relation has been made as to whether these are the same dogs since the Christmas Eve incident,” defense attorney Charles Gross said, according to the article. “While this is a tragic situation, it does not necessarily mean that it is a criminal situation, and I would just ask everyone to remember the presumption of innocence,” Gross said. The judge ruled that there was a good enough cause in the case to go to trial, the station said. The minor is charged with three counts of possession of dangerous animals attacking a human, violating rabies and allowing unlimited dangerous animals to leave his property.
