Good Doggie

Hope he had all his shots - who knows what diseases the burglar had?

• An armed robbery in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was stopped when friends of the victim released a pit bull on the attacker, authorities said.
  
  Dressed in blue hospital scrubs and clutching his bandaged right forearm behind his back, Marshon Hannah, 18, said nothing as Judge David R. Navarro denied bail on an armed robbery charge Sunday.
  
  Hannah — a high school senior, according to his court-appointed attorney — entered a private, gated property in the 4900 block of South Marshfield Avenue late Friday and attempted to rob the 47-year-old resident with a small black handgun.
  
  Hannah is accused of demanding the victim’s property and taking a set of keys from the man’s pocket, Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Williams said during a bail hearing Sunday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
  
  The victim took small steps back toward a rear yard where two friends were waiting. The victim’s friends, both 42, appeared, one holding a pit bull between his legs, Williams said. After one of the men urged the pet to attack, Hannah pulled the trigger two or three times, but the weapon misfired, Williams said. The dog then bit the attacker, who again unsuccessfully fired the weapon.
  
  All three victims told police they saw the man pull the trigger and heard the weapon click but that it didn’t fire, according to Hannah’s arrest report. As the gunman ran from the dog and all three men — one armed with a two-by-four — he threw the small revolver away, the report stated. The men held the gunman and injured him while trying to restrain him until police arrived, authorities said. None of the victims were hurt.

Sounds like he got off lightly.