By Snejana Farberov A 3-year-old boy from Mississippi has been attacked and mauled to death by the family's two pit bulls, despite his mother's efforts to save him that left her injured. Sheriff Willie March says Christopher Malone was playing behind a mobile home in the rural Thornton community Monday near a chain-link pen where the two dogs were locked up. According to March, the dogs somehow managed to get out and attacked the toddler, who was pronounced dead on the scene from him wounds. Scroll down for video Horrible death: Christopher Malone (left and right) was playing outside his home in Thornton, Mississippi, when the family's two pet pit bulls escaped from their enclosure and mauled him to death
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Christopher Malone was pronounced dead on scene outside his home in Thornton, Mississippi
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His mother was taken to a hospital to be treated for dog bites
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'The dog just jumped him and took him down and dragged him in the back and killed him, ate him up,' said the victim’s aunt Lucy Mayze
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Family lost a grandmother in house fire in January
Malone's mother was hospitalized with injuries she suffered when she tried to pull the pit bulls off the child, @placeholder News Now reported.