By Scott Harvey
Bonham – Felony charges have been dropped against the suspect in a 2008 dog attack on a woman and a little girl in Bonham.
John Hardy Taylor died from a heat stroke last month, leaving no case for the prosecution. Hardy was facing four counts of attack by a dog after his pit bulls attacked the 44-year-old woman and 11-year-old girl in the downtown area.
The office of Fannin County District Attorney Richard Glaser dropped the four charges on Wednesday.
The attack left the woman permanently disfigured as she lost the partial use of one of her legs. The girl, while she had no lasting physical injury following the attack, did suffer a severe laceration which required plastic surgery.