No charges in Colbert goat attack
Authorities won't press charges against the owner of a goat that attacked an 88-year-old Colbert man last month, though city leaders plan to bolster animal control as a result.
Colbert, the only city in Madison County that handled its own animal control, decided last week to ask the county to enforce animal control laws in response to an Aug. 22 attack that fatally injured Vestal Davis of Smithonia-Colbert Road.
The Colbert City Council voted last week to give the county the responsibility of responding to problem animals in the city limits. The Madison County Board of Commissioners must approve the agreement before it takes effect.
"We did adopt it, and it was all driven with the incident with Mr. Davis," Mayor Chris Peck said Monday.
Davis died Aug. 28 at Athens Regional Medical Center, five days after a goat hit him repeatedly and left him with fractures and paralyzing injuries that led to his death.
The sheriff's office planned to press charges against the goat's 69-year-old owner for of allowing livestock to roam free, but decided against it, Madison County Sheriff Kip Thomas said.
"The (Davis) family didn't want to, so we didn't," Thoma
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