Police: Pit Bull Bites Woman, Students On A Bus, In Series Of Attacks

By Andrew Kramer and Joe Holden

CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) - A high school basketball team in South Jersey got quite the scare over the weekend before a game.

The Woodrow Wilson High School girls basketball team was boarding a bus to go to an away game Saturday morning. That's when the players and staff were joined by an unwanted passenger.

Officials say a dog hopped on and bit two of the students. They were taken to the hospital where they received stitches.

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Everyone else made it off the bus safely, before trapping the dog inside.

"This was a random and deeply unfortunate incident," says Brendan Lowe with the Camden City School District.

The team ended up going to the game via cars.

"We're proud of how quickly our students, staff and families responded to it," adds Lowe. "The injured students are resting at home and we're closely monitoring them and their teammates during this time."

After all this, the Woodrow Wilson girls won the game. It was the coach's 100th career victory.

The students on the bus were not the first victims of the dog.

On Monday, Vanessa Truitt was returning from Lourdes Hospital. The cuts, gashes and bites on her legs are cause for concern. According to police, she was the first victim in the series of attacks in Camden on Saturday morning by a single pit bull.

She took us back to moments before it happened. "I got half way down the street and crossed the street and I'm like what the hell, are three big dogs following me or what," she recalled in an interview with Eyewitness News.

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Truitt made it to a neighbor's door, but not before being bit.

To put it in her words, she said the attacking dog "got a hunk," out of her leg before her neighbor was able to fight it off with a pole. "It was to the bone," Truitt said about the cut.

Eyewitness News went looking for the dog's owner. No one was home at the address obtained by CBS 3.