04-29-2012, 11:53 AM
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.
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 the father, 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 Mastiff had been around the baby since he was born and the family said he had never been aggressive towards people.