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An Oklahoma father found his 6-year-old son covered in blood and bite wounds after he was fatally mauled by several dogs outside their home, officials said.

Deputies received a 911 call about a dog attack at 7:28 p.m. Sunday, May 4, from a home in rural Cleveland County, according to a report by a deputy with the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies arrived five minutes after the call and saw the father walking down the driveway with his son limp in his arms, and a barking, growling dog following close behind him, the report said.

"His body from head to toe had an ungodly amount of bite wounds" and he had no pulse, the deputy wrote.


The father said his son went outside to get a phone charger from a car, and had only been gone about five minutes when he found him, according to the report.

First responders performed CPR on the boy and he started breathing. "He was trying to talk but could only mumble," the deputy wrote.

"I had the child's hand in mine and it was cold to the touch."

He was taken from the scene by ambulance and pronounced dead at 8:37 p.m., the report said. There were pools of blood in several spots in the yard, and it appeared the boy had struggled to get away from the dogs, the deputy wrote.

He was "only feet away from the residence" when the attack happened, but the father said he didn't hear anything.

There were at least four other children at the home, and five outside dogs kept on the property by a wireless fence system, the report said.

The father said he "wanted to get rid of them all," referring to the dogs, the deputy wrote.

Investigators aren't sure which dogs are responsible for the attack, but the father gave them up to animal welfare for the sake of his children's safety, John Szymanski, chief deputy of operations, told KWTV.

All five dogs were euthanized. At least two of the dogs had blood on their fur, Szymanski said. He added that one of them likely attacked the boy immediately when he went outside, though it's unclear why.

"The dogs were all well taken care of, it didn't appear like there was any negligence at this point," Szymanski told the station.

So far, no charges have been brought but an investigation is ongoing.