An infant and grandfather, identified as 50-year-old James Alexander Smith died Wednesday afternoon after being attacked by at least seven dogs inside a home on East Warren Street in Tullahoma, according to the Coffee County Sheriff's Office.

The infant was mauled first, and the man was killed while trying to save the child, investigators said.

A neighbor who asked not to be identified said he arrived home around 2:30 p.m. and saw a woman screaming in the middle of the road.

"I couldn't understand what she was saying," he said. "I tried to help. I came up on her and asked her what was going on. She wouldn't answer me. She ran off. Then I heard one siren, and then I heard more, and knew the cavalry was coming, basically."

Officers, paramedics and animal control responded to the scene. O

See Full Page