{"id":719,"date":"2026-05-18T21:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:19:38","slug":"mother-speaks-out-after-7-month-old-baby-is-mauled-to-death-by-family-pit-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Mother speaks out after 7-month-old baby is mauled to death by family pit bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><br \/>\n  <body><\/p>\n<p>\n      <strong>7-Month-Old Baby Mauled to Death by Family Pit Bull<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck in Ohio when 7-month-old Elizah Renee Lynn Turner was fatally mauled by her family\u2019s pit bull on April 9. Her devastated parents, Mackenzie Copley and Kameron Turner, are struggling to comprehend the horrifying loss.<\/p>\n<p>Copley, heartbroken, shared her grief online, saying, <i>\u201cI am so lost and broken. This was the same dog who was side by side with my baby every single day.\u201d<\/i> Turner echoed her pain, writing, <i>\u201cLife is so not fair.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Authorities have removed the family\u2019s three pit bulls and are investigating the incident. No charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Elizah\u2019s obituary described her as a joyful baby who lit up every room. Her death is the fourth fatal pit bull attack in the U.S. in under four weeks, raising the 2025 dog attack death toll to 22, according to Animals 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>Police called the incident \u201ctragic,\u201d with officers mourning as parents themselves.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7-Month-Old Baby Mauled to Death by Family Pit Bull Tragedy struck in Ohio when 7-month-old Elizah Renee Lynn Turner was fatally mauled by her family\u2019s pit bull on April 9. Her devastated parents, Mackenzie Copley and Kameron Turner, are struggling to comprehend the horrifying loss. Copley, heartbroken, shared her grief online, saying, \u201cI am so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nativevoicesonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}