Jay Collins had a rough night last October. His Great Dane ripping his face apart was just the beginning.
Collins, 29, grabbed a knife, according to records from his trial last week, to defend himself against the dog attack, resulting in 17 stitches from his lip across his cheek. He had bite marks across both arms.
When police arrived, Collins didn’t know that he had killed the dog. Two Wichita police officers saw him with the knife and ordered him to drop it. Still in shock, Collins dropped the knife after several commands but didn’t immediately get down on the ground under the officers’ orders so they fired a Taser at him – three times. Then they arrested him for not dropping the knife on their first command.
A jury found Collins not guilty of assault on a law enforcement officer.