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Stanyelle M. Miles-McCloud is accused of serious bodily injury after her pit bull viciously
attacked an elderly woman, severing her left arm from just below the
elbow.
Stanyelle M. Miles-McCloud is accused of serious bodily injury after her pit bull viciously
attacked an elderly woman, severing her left arm from just below the
elbow.
Photo: Courtesy
Alphonso McCloud is accused of serious bodily injury after his pit bull viciously attacked an elderly woman, severing her left arm from just below the elbow.
Alphonso McCloud is accused of serious bodily injury after his pit bull viciously attacked an elderly woman, severing her left arm from just below the elbow.
Photo: Courtesy
The following photo contains content that some viewers may find disturbing.
The following photo contains content that some viewers may find disturbing.
GRAPHIC WARNING — On Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, the jury in the trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud saw one of three photographs of the San Antonio senior citizen mauled by the pair's pit bull, her arm ripped off, in 2017.
lessGRAPHIC WARNING — On Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, the jury in the trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud saw one of three photographs of the San Antonio senior citizen mauled by the pair's pit
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Stanyelle Miles-McCloud (left) and Alphonso McCloud arrive at the start of their dangerous dog trial in the 187th district court Thursday. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessStanyelle Miles-McCloud (left) and Alphonso McCloud arrive at the start of their dangerous dog trial in the 187th district court Thursday. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously
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Stanyelle Miles-McCloud listens to defense attorney Kenneth Baker at the start of her dangerous dog trial along with co-defendant Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessStanyelle Miles-McCloud listens to defense attorney Kenneth Baker at the start of her dangerous dog trial along with co-defendant Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog
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Defense attorney Kenneth Baker makes his opening statement in the dangeous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. Court records show that Miles-McCloud and her then-husband, Alphonso A. McCloud, were warned several times by Animal Control Services after an elderly woman complained that the couple could not keep the dog, a pit bull mix, in their yard. On March 6, 2017, The dog got out, went to the woman's house and attacked her so vicously that her left arm was severed below the elbow.
lessDefense attorney Kenneth Baker makes his opening statement in the dangeous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. Court records show that Miles-McCloud and her then-husband, Alphonso A.
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Stanyelle Miles-McCloud listens to co-defendant Alphonso McCloud at the start of their trial.
Stanyelle Miles-McCloud listens to co-defendant Alphonso McCloud at the start of their trial.
Photo: Robin Jerstad / For The San Antonio Express News
Judge Joey Contreras swears in the jury at the start of the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessJudge Joey Contreras swears in the jury at the start of the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an
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Judge Joey Conteras of the 187th District Court listens to prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris (left) and defense attorney Kenneth Baker at the start of the dangerous dog trial of Alphonso McCloud and Stanyelle Miles-McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessJudge Joey Conteras of the 187th District Court listens to prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris (left) and defense attorney Kenneth Baker at the start of the dangerous dog trial of Alphonso McCloud and Stanyelle
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Alphonso McCloud looks over the 187th District courtroom Thursday during opening statement's in the dangerous dog trial of himself and ex-wife, Stanyelle Miles-McCloud (r). They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessAlphonso McCloud looks over the 187th District courtroom Thursday during opening statement's in the dangerous dog trial of himself and ex-wife, Stanyelle Miles-McCloud (r). They are accused of serious bodily
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Prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris gives his opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud Thursday morning in the 187th District Court. Court records show that Miles-McCloud and McCloud, were warned several times by Animal Control Services after an elderly woman complained that the couple could not keep the dog, a pit bull mix, in their yard. On March 6, 2017, The dog got out, went to the woman's house and attacked her so vicously that her left arm was severed below the elbow. to the woman's house and attacked her so vicously that her left arm was severed below the elbow.
lessProsecuting attorney Daryll Harris gives his opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud Thursday morning in the 187th District Court. Court records show that
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Prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris gives his opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud Thursday morning in the 187th District Court. Court records show that Miles-McCloud and McCloud, were warned several times by Animal Control Services after an elderly woman complained that the couple could not keep the dog, a pit bull mix, in their yard. On March 6, 2017, The dog got out, went to the woman's house and attacked her so vicously that her left arm was severed below the elbow.
lessProsecuting attorney Daryll Harris gives his opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud Thursday morning in the 187th District Court. Court records show that
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Judge Joey Contreras of the 187th District Court listens to Prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris' opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessJudge Joey Contreras of the 187th District Court listens to Prosecuting attorney Daryll Harris' opening statement in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of
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Defense attorney Kenneth Baker makes his opening statements in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously attacked an elderly woman, whose left arm was severed from just below the elbow.
lessDefense attorney Kenneth Baker makes his opening statements in the dangerous dog trial of Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud. They are accused of serious bodily injury after their dog vicously
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Jurors hear chilling 911 call, see photos of San Antonio senior mauled by dog
“Let go! Let go,” cried the boy in a video shown in court Thursday as he used a stick to try and stop a 70-pound pit bull named “Bully” that dragged, chewed, broke and tore at an elderly San Antonio woman’s arm until a police officer shot the dog to death.
The graphic images were taken from the doorbell of Doris Mixon Smith, who was 72 on March 6, 2017, when her next-door neighbors’ pet somehow got out of its yard and attacked her — for at least five minutes — as she was gardening. Mixon Smith’s arm was severed just below the elbow, and the skin and flesh on the right side of her face was ripped and torn, from the eyebrow to her chin.
Stanyelle Miles-McCloud and Alphonso McCloud, the dog’s owners, are on trial, accused of serious bodily injury and not securing the animal in their yard in a horrific case involving a dangerous dog attack in a city where roaming and loose animals are considered to be a growing problem.
Jurors wept as they watched the short three-part video, entered into evidence by prosecutor Daryl Harris. It began with Mixon Smith on the ground, with the dog’s jaw locked on her arm. The video camera in the doorbell was activated when she told the child to push the button.
The child, who was not identified, cried as he hit the dog and commanded it to let go, but it wouldn’t as neighbors watched in shock. It dragged Mixon Smith and violently shook his head with her arm in his mouth. Streaks of blood were visible on her front porch on what was a sunny afternoon in the 8900 block of Mansfield on the far West Side. Once police arrived, the child was heard saying, “don’t shoot my dog,” as three shots were fired. The dog twitched after it was shot, and the last image was of Mixon Smith’s body nearby, part of her arm missing.
Before the grisly images were shown, jurors heard recordings of two chilling 911 calls from a neighbor, who can be heard frantically yelling expletives as he tried to get police and emergency medical technicians to quickly respond.
“There’s a pit bull attacking a lady outside! Come help this lady right now! Right now!” said the scared caller. In the background, his children’s screams and those of Mixon Smith could be heard.
In a second call, the frantic neighbor tells his children, who are crying, to stay away from the window as he pleads for police to come.
“The lady is bleeding, the bone is showing! Oh, my God, someone get here please! I don’t know what to (expletive) do!”
Shortly after police arrive, the caller can be heard on the recording asking them, “Shoot it! Shoot it! Shoot that (expletive) thing. (Expletive. Expletive. Expletive. Expletive),” as gunshots are heard in the background.
Oscar Linares, a San Antonio Fire Department emergency medical technician who was one of the first on scene, told the jury he has responded to many calls for a dog bite, but that Mixon Smith’s injuries were like none he had ever seen.
“The lady was lying on her back and had a tourniquet up high (on her arm), she had a left arm amputation, injuries around her face and breathing problems,” he said.
Linares used a pointer on crime scene photographs in front of a projector screen behind Judge Joey Contreras to show the extent of Mixon Smith’s injuries. Linares said she was bitten “through and through on the face,” and looked as if the skin and flesh had been ripped off from her eyebrow to her chin, exposing the muscle. Her arm, severed by the dog’s teeth, left an exposed artery.
Linares, who stood in front of a projector screen behind Judge Joey Contreras, showed the jury areas where the muscle on the right side of the victim’s face was visible and where it had been torn and ripped.
The pair, who pleaded not guilty, are no longer married but they are being tried together and are out on bond.
Defense attorney Kenneth Baker, representing Alphonso McCloud, told the jury in his opening statement that no one knows exactly how the dog escaped the yard. He said both defendants are liked by their neighbors and that no one else on the block had issues with “Bully.”
He said although the incident is tragic and “horrible,” the dog was protecting his property because Mixon Smith was known to mow the McClouds’ lawn when they had not, which a neighbor who lives across the street confirmed in testimony.
Baker also told the panel that “Bully” acted out because of his memory of Mixon Smith, whom Baker said would antagonize the animal with the lawnmower each time she mowed the lawn and would park it against the fence with the motor running.
Prosecutors Harris and Nicole Phillips said Mixon Smith had a history of complaining to the McClouds about their dog getting loose, and that the fence was not secured with a lock. They said the dog also had bitten at least two other people. Photographs taken at the scene by San Antonio police showed a wire used to secure the inside of the gate from the backyard, and deep holes in the ground near the fence where a dog could escape. Testimony from a neighbor across the street indicated that the day Mixon Smith was attacked, no lock was on the outside part of the gate.
Defense attorney Edith Brown, representing Stanyelle Miles-McCloud, waived her opening statement.
Roaming animals are considered to be a growing problem in the Alamo City. Last year, Animal Care Services issued more than 11,000 citations to owners whose pets were found roaming. The agency estimates that more than 13,000 will be issued in 2018.
ACS Spokeswoman Lisa Norwood said there are a number of “bites” cases that occur each year, but “attack by dog” cases that cause serious bodily injury, such as in the McCloud case, are rare.
She said 36 dangerous dog cases were filed in fiscal year 2017, and of those, 15 required hospitalization for serious bodily injuries. Year to date, 23 cases have been filed with nine requiring hospitalization for serious bites so far for fiscal year 2018.
A dangerous dog attack that causes severe bodily injury is a third-degree felony, punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
Testimony is expected to resume Friday morning in the 187th state District Court.
Elizabeth Zavala is a San Antonio Express-News staff writer. Read more of her stories here. | ezavala@express-news.net | @elizabeth2863
