Flagstaff: Autopsy has confirmed that a 13-year-old girl was killed by a dog package while walking around her family’s house in Navajo Nation.
Lyssa Rose Upshaw has a spacious injury that is consistent with caning tooth signs, including cutting and abrasion in the neck and head and soft tissue wounds in his legs.
His clothes were torn, and he was covered in the ground, according to the autopsy released this week in response to a public record request from the Associated Press.
While his mother, Marissa Jones, suspected the dog since he saw his daughter curled up from a trail of land in Fort Defiance in mid-May, he had been waiting for official causes.
“I never thought it would happen to my daughter,” he said.
“He is a dog lover.” The medical examiner office in Coconino County classifies the death of upshaw as unintentional.
The deadly attack has discussed the discussion across the reservation about how to make people responsible for their pets.
The members of the tribal parliament recently issued a resolution to establish criminal penalties.
Navajo Nation’s president Jonathan Nez memveto, said it was not far enough and needed more input.
At least a handful of deaths in Navajo countries have been blamed for many dog packages, and many other people were injured.
None of the tribal animal control law, which is considered a civil violation, holds the owner of the dog responsible for death.
Michael Henderson, Director of Tribal Criminal Investigation, said the tribal allegations were being considered in the death of upshaw when the authorities collected more evidence and awaiting results for specimens collected from dogs belonging to the neighbor.
“The case is far enough from being closed, far from just being set aside as an accident or civilian problem or something,” he said.
“We are still very aggressively pursuing to understand cases to what extent if there are criminal elements attached to what happens.” The FBI is doing some laboratory testing.
Henderson said he had spoken with the federal prosecutor whose response was initially that the case was not one that could be charged under a series of limited crimes where the federal government had jurisdiction in tribal land.
The tribe has jurisdiction together but often seek federal accusations because they bring more decisive punishment than under tribal law.
Maximum time in prison that can be worn by Navajo for any crime, regardless of severity, is one year.
Esther Winne, a spokesman for the US lawyer office for Arizona, could not say whether the number of numbers had been referred to the federal prosecutor.
The FBI does not respond to a message from the AP.
Jones said that the “baby girl” who had the aspirations of running in the cross-country middle school team did get more compassion and sympathy from neighbors who had dogs and more attention from investigators in this case.
He has pushed the time and fine prison for anyone found responsible, even though Henderson admitted there was no clear path.
“I hope and I pray for my daughter to get justice,” Jones said.
Teen girl died of a dog attack on Navajo Nation: Autopsy
