A 2-year-old child was in critical condition today in a Dallas hospital after a rope that attached a dog to a tree in a Paris backyard wrapped around the child’s neck on Thursday.
Police, fire and EMS were called about 2 p.m. Thursday to the 600 block of Southeast 10th Street.
“Investigation so far indicates that the child was in the backyard of a residence with a dog that was attached to a tree by a nylon rope,” said officer Curtis Garrett, public information officer for the Paris Police Department.
“The dog evidently was just moving about and caught the child in the rope, which wrapped around his neck, choking him unconscious. He was transported to a local hospital and transferred to a Dallas hospital by EMS,” Garrett said.
Foggy conditions prevented him from being airlifted to Dallas.
“Investigation is continuing on where adults were in the household,” Garrett said.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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