'Slit the dog's throat!' 911 dispatcher's harrowing instructions to mother as her one-year-old was mauled to death by their pet pit bull

  • Triniti Harrell, one, died in the hospital on Monday, a week after the attack 
  • She was playing with her family's pit bull when it suddenly attacked her 
  • Her mother Miranda's harrowing 911 call emerged afterwards
  • During it, a dispatcher instructs her to slit the dog's throat and beat it to death
  • She grabbed a knife and tried to kill the animal but the blade was not sharp enough
  • A sheriff's deputy eventually arrived and had to shoot the animal twice before it let go of the baby  

By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com

Published: 14:33 EDT, 2 November 2018 | Updated: 16:43 EDT, 2 November 2018

The harrowing 911 call of a mother who called for help when her one-year-old daughter was attacked by a pit bull reveals how slit the animal's throat and hit it over the head trying to save the child before she died. 

Triniti Harrell died in the hospital after being attacked by her family pet in the front yard of their home in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, last Monday. 

Her mother Miranda called 911 as she was being attacked and was given a string of instructions to try to save her but none worked. 

Triniti Harrell, one, died in hospital a week after being mauled to death by her family's pit bull in North Carolina 
The dog believed to have committed the attack

Triniti Harrell, one, died in hospital a week after being mauled to death by her family's pit bull in North Carolina. Pictured right is the dog believed to have committed the attack - Kilo 

Triniti's mother Miranda Harrell was who called 911. She is pictured with the child's father, Mike Gurganus 

Triniti's mother Miranda Harrell was who called 911. She is pictured with the child's father, Mike Gurganus 

For nine minutes, she begged the dispatcher to 'hurry up' and send help. The call begins with Harrell saying the pet was 'attacking' her daughter. 

THE 911 CALL  

Mom: I need some help. My dog is attacking my daughter. Hurry, she's dying. Please hurry.

Dispatcher:  Can you get a hold of anything to try to get the dog off her? 

Can you try to get something to separate them? I've got everybody I can get en route to you.

(Dispatcher tells her to get a pan) 

Hit him with it. Hit him right in the center of the top of his head. If you hit him hard enough, you'll knock him out.

Mom: I'm hitting him as hard as I can

Dispatcher: Can you run in the house and grab a steak knife or something? Go into the house and get a knife, I will tell you how to get him off her.

Mom: I can't leave her out here 

Dispatcher: It'll take you 30 seconds to run in the house and grab it

(Mother continues to yell at dog) 

Dispatcher : Ma'am, yelling at him is not going to change anything. I need you to find something sharp, and I'll explain to you how to get the dog off of her... 

(Mom retrieves knife)  

Dispatcher: Cut him across the bottom of his neck. It's going to release his jaw muscles. He won't have a choice but to let go

Mom: I'm trying. The blade isn't sharp enough

Dispatcher: I need you to do anything you can do with that to make that dog let go. The dog's life is not a concern to me at this point 

Call drops off  

'Hurry, she's dying. Please hurry,' she said. 

'Can you get a hold of anything to try to get the dog off her? 

'Can you try to get something to separate them? I've got everybody I can get en route to you,' the dispatcher said. 

The male dispatcher then told the mother to put a stick in the dog's mouth to try to separate them. 

He then instructed the mother to use a shovel or pan to hit the animal with and knock it out. 

'Hit him with it. Hit him right in the center of the top of his head. If you hit him hard enough, you'll knock him out,' he said. 

The mother replied that she was hitting the animal as hard as she could but that it was not working. 

That is when the dispatcher instructed her to go inside and retrieve a kitchen knife to slit the animal's throat. 

'Can you run in the house and grab a steak knife or something? 

'If you will run in the house and get a knife, I will tell you how to get him off her,' he said. 

The mother pleaded that she could not go inside and leave the child alone, but he persisted: 'It'll take you 30 seconds to run in the house and grab it,' he said. 

She ignored him and continued to scream at the dog, prompting him to tell her: 'Ma'am, yelling at him is not going to change anything.

'I need you to find something sharp, and I'll explain to you how to get the dog off of her.' 

When she finally went to get the knife and bring it back outside, the dispatcher instructed her: 'Cut him across the bottom of his neck. 

'It's going to release his jaw muscles. 

Triniti was taken to hospital and remained on life support for a week but she died on Monday
Triniti was taken to hospital and remained on life support for a week but she died on Monday

Triniti was taken to hospital and remained on life support for a week but she died on Monday

'He won't have a choice but to let go.' 

Harrell said she was trying but that the blade was not sharp enough. 

'I need you to do anything you can do with that to make that dog let go. 

The dog's life is not a concern to me at this point,' the dispatcher went on. 

Afterwards, the call dropped. 

An off-duty police officer arrived at the scene shortly afterwards and shot the dog but had to fire his gun twice before the animal died. 

Triniti was taken to the hospital but died on Monday, a week after the incident.  

This is the family's home in Rocky Mount, North Carolina 

This is the family's home in Rocky Mount, North Carolina 

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