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Good Samaritan Saves Teen Being Attacked By Dogs
FORT WORTH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
Dogs were in attack mode, sinking their teeth into a teenager, when the Good Samaritan stepped in and helped.
Barbara Carroll's leg is now bandaged and bloody, but her mother says if the stranger had not stopped to help them Thursday afternoon, the 16-year-old would be in much worse shape.
The Carrolls were waiting for a taxi cab outside a doctor's office on North Beach Boulevard in Fort Worth when two dogs came racing across a field toward them.
"They just kind of pounced on her back, and then down on the ground," said Juanita, Barbara's mother. "They had her."
Barbara says she tried to get away, but the Doberman Pinscher and the Golden Retriever mix attacked.
"First, they tried to tear my pants off," said Barbara. "Then they bit into my leg."
"She was screaming," said Juanita.
Juanita walks with a cane and said she felt helpless. "I couldn't get to her. That's all I could think about, 'I gotta get to her.'"
Luckily, that's when Suvetra Berryman drove by. "I was like, 'Oh my goodness. Let me hurry up.'"
The 30-year-old immediately made a u-turn and drove straight toward the dogs.
"When he pulled by like that, boom. They went that way," said Juanita.
"They ran back toward the yard," said Berryman.
Berryman says the dogs stayed at the house next to the field for a few minutes, and then charged after another man walking down the sidewalk.
"The black one ran toward him, and he ran across the street," said Berryman.
Back home, Barbara is thankful her Nintendo game didn't get broken in the attack. Her mother is even more grateful for Berryman.
She believes if he hadn't taken the time to help, her daughter may not be sitting next to her now.
"I think my daughter would have been really full of holes," she said.
"I'm a man of God, and that's what I'm on this earth to do," Berryman said.
Animal control came and took the dogs from the house next to the field.
The woman who lives at the house said she does not own the dogs. She says they are strays that would hang around her property.
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