The year 2024 closed with ten fatal dog attacks in 26 days, ending with a record 71 reported fatalities in the U.S., 51 by pit bull, plus another in Canada, for a new combined U.S.-and-Canada death toll on 72.
But that is not how 2024 started out.
Twenty-nine days into the year, January 2024 appeared likely to become the first month since November 2020 without a pit bull-inflicted human fatality occurring somewhere around the U.S.
Then, within the last 48 hours of the month, as well as killing Harold Phillips, pit bulls killed 19-year-old Carlon Galloway, of Fort Hall, Idaho; Willie Mundine, 85, of Indianapolis, Indiana, killed in the act of protecting his wife; and Sommer Kanoeonalani Crivello, of Ocean View, Hawaii.
The 2024 roster of dog attack dead
(Listed by breed involved.)
CANE CORSO
1) Kache Grist, 11, 4-2-2024, Edmonton, Alberta. Killed by father's dogs.
2) Shiree Barney, 9, 8-9-2024, Aripine, AZ. Killed by two family dogs.
CATAHOULA
1) Leonore Lawhon Hale, 72, 1-29-2024, Chiefland, FL. Own dog also mauled husband Jim Hale.
GERMAN SHEPHERD
1) Shiraz Amal Asirvadam, 1, 1-15-2024, Duncanville, TX. Three of babysitter's four dogs.
2) Nancy Ann Punches, 91, 9-25-2024, Chehalis, WA. Killed by own 2 German shepherds.
GREAT DANE
1) Duke Miller Whittington, 4, 1-29-2024, Monroe Center, IL. Parents were breeders.
2) Davina Corbin, 56, 8-8-2024, Feather Falls, CA. Free-roaming pack, unknown owner.
HUSKY
1) Brayden Heery Burwell, 2 weeks, 2-16-2024, Milford, CT.
2) Amaya Rose Carmack, 4 days, 5-14-2024, Greene County, TN. (Grandmother had stepped out for a cigarette. A second husky, a pit bull described as a chocolate lab, and a mutt described as an "Anatolian shepherd" were also in the house.)
3) Ezra Anthony Mansoor, 5 weeks, 5-24-2024, Knoxville, TN. Died 5-30-2024. Family husky.
4) Unidentified homeless, 7-4-2023, Fresno County, CA. Told cops "husky or coyote."
PIT BULL
1) Reuben Pierce, 70, 1-24-2024, Jacksonville, AR. Mauled by pit bulls on October 30, 2023.
2) Willie Mundine, 85, 1-30-2024, Indianapolis, IN. 3 free-roaming pit bulls in own back yard.
3) Carlon Galloway, 19, 1-30-2024, Fort Hall Reservation, ID. Fugitive from justice.
4) Harold Phillips, 35, 1-31-2024, Detroit, MI. 3 free-roaming pit bulls. Died 2-2-2024 after four days in coma.
5) Sommer Crivello, 42, 1-31-2024, Ocean View, HI. Died saving pet goat from own pit bull,
6) Jay Simms, 67, 2-2-2024, Longview, TX. Attacked on bicycle, apparently suffered heart attack.
7) Dominic Cooper, 35, 2-15-2-24, Compton, CA. Breeder killed by own 13 pit bulls.
8) Beau Clark, 4, 2-26-2024, Hartselle, AL. Killed & father injured by family Olde English Bulldog.
9) Mark Alan Partain, 2, 3-1-2024, New Hope, AL. Neighbor's pit bull.
10) Daymon Jair Balbuena, 3 months, 3-9-2024, Woodbridge, NJ. Killed, parents hurt by own pit bull.
11) Lennox Rohena, 1, 3-13-24, East Hartford, CT.
12) Cindy White, 52, 4-12-2024, Portsmouth, VA. Killed by own three pit bulls.
13) Kaheem Robinson, 41, 4-26-2024, Bronx, NY. Killed by his own pit bull.
14) Courtney Williams Cox, 35, 5-9-2024, Quitman, AL. Two pits led pack of 13 mutts. One of three children with victim was critically injured.
15) Man, 40, 5-18-2024, Farmington Hills, MI. Killed by "family pit bull."
16) Jennifer Breeden, 53, 5-30-2024 Los Angeles, CA. Killed by own pit bull while breaking up fight.
17) Willard Norton, 83, 6-2-2024, Town Creek, AL. Killed by neighbor's two pit bulls.
18) Trina Sandlin, 57, 6-9-2024, Jeremiah, TN. Killed by convict's free-roaming pit bulls.
19) Sheila Jones, 54, 6-14-2024, Baltimore, MD. Two others injured in rampage by two pit bulls.
20) Geronima Florez, 85, 6-21-2024, Monte Alto, TX. Killed while feeding own pit bull.
21) Toby Bryan Berkley, 40, 6-27-2024, Snyder, TX. Killed by two pit bulls owned by Marco Aguirre.
22) Theresa Rhodes, 61, 7-1-2024, Bolivar, TN. Killed by two pit bulls.
23) Jaxson Dvorak, 6, 7-3-2024, Lorain, OH. Killed by pit bull & GSD with six puppies.
24) Clint Fontenot, 41, 7-3-2024, Arkadelphia, AR. Killed by own XL Bully.
25) Karen K.C. Nelson, 71, 7-10-2024, Florence, SC. Killed while bicycling.
26) Renona Ewing, 62, 7-11-2024, Tuscaloosa County, AL. Breeder killed in pen by Bully XL.
27) Kimberly Ann Williams, 60, 8-2-2024, Indianapolis, IL. Dog-sitter killed by two pit bulls.
28) Sulamin Hawkins Jr, 2 months, 8-3-2024, Rochester, NY. Killed in home by two pit bulls.
29) Unknown, 1, 8-9-2024, Memphis, TN. Boy killed in home by two pit bulls.
30) Keshon Bullock, 33, 8-24-2024, Chicago, IL. Killed while sitting pit bulls for a friend.
31) Robert Holguin, 53, 9-1-2024, Oakland, CA. Killed by friend's three pit bulls.
32) Unknown, 18 months, 9-23-2024, Newark, NJ. Killed in home while in care of babysitter.
33) Zoey Hawkins, 4, 9-4-2024, Visalia, CA. Killed in home.
34) Leslie McCray, 56, 9-22-2024, Conway, SC. Killed by neighbor's pit bull.
35) Jimmy Miller, 72, 9-25-2024, Cardwell, MO. Killed by rescue pit bull.
36) Unidentified, 10-4-2024, Albuquerque, NM. Apparently killed by alleged hoarder's pit bulls.
36) Jiryiah Johnson, 1, 10-7-2024, Converse, TX. Killed by babysitter's three pit bulls.
37) Chevy Womack, 1 month, 10-8-2024, Torrance, CA. Killed by mother's pit bull.
38) James Provost, 59, 10-9-2024, Albany, NY. Killed by 8-9 pit bulls in alleged drug house yard.
39) Juanita L. Sanchez, 35, 11-3-2024, Fontana, CA. Killed by two of her four "rescued" pit bulls.
40) Unidentified homeless man, 11-3-2024, San Bernardino, CA. Killed by 11 pit bulls.
41) Chris Culbertson, 46, 11-3-2024, Kansas City, MO. Killed by seven pit bulls.
42) Jeriline Brady-McGinnis, 73, 11-19-2024, Roxbury, MA. Killed by tenant's pit, one of four.
43) Unidentified woman, 51, 11-25-2024, Philadelphia, PA. Killed by son's multiple pit bulls.
44) Caleb Joseph Brown, 8, 11-29-2024, Jacksonville, NC. Killed by two Great Dane/pit bulls kept by family.
45) Velma Leake, 92, 12-3-2024, Rochester, NY. Killed at home by family pit bull.
46) Pedro Luis Ortega, 26, 12-13-2024, Mira Mesa, CA. Killed by own three XL Bullies.
47) Hector Pierna, 78 12-16-2024, Beaumont, TX. Killed by two pit bulls.
48) Lexis Salas, 18, 12-16-2024, Madera County, CA. Killed by two pit bulls.
49) Samara Rogers, 21, 12-18-2024, Augusta, GA. Killed in street by two pit bulls.
50) Unknown man, 12-20-2024, Simi Valley, CA. Suffered heart attack trying to stop attack after his pit bull attacked a Rottweiler.
51) Kingsley Renee Wright, 3, 12-27-2024, Cincinnati, OH. Father's two pit bull.
52) Anaya Eyvelle Davis, 2, 12-29-2024, Wichita Falls, TX.
ROTTWEILER
1) Man, not named, 80, 7-4-2024, Houston, TX. Killed by neighbor's two Rottweilers.
2) Adaya Fisher, 2, 7-29-2024, Houston, TX. Killed by babysitter's three Rottweilers.
(See Rottweilers kill woman & baby within 75 minutes in separate attacks.)
3) Amelia Yu, 5, 12-8-2024, Covina, CA. Killed by father's two Rottweilers.
DOGS UNIDENTIFIED
1) Rogelio Garza, 59, 1-16-2024, Mission, TX.
2) Lester Peneaux, 9, 5-1-2024, Eagle Butte, MT. Killed by "feral dogs."
3) Joni Hatcher, 59, 7-7-2024, Caddo Parish, LA. Killed while dog sitting multiple dogs of unidentified breed.
4) Unidentified man, 9-27-2024, Durham, NC. Found dead in home just before Hurricane Helene.
5) Francisco Batz-Lux, 42, 12-22-2024, Albertville, AL. Found dead in trailer park.
Humans...not so much.