Despite his 10 Olympic medals, a U.N. ambassadorship and his pro bono coaching work for the University of Houston, track star Carl Lewis won’t be winning the “neighbor of the year” award at his Memorial Drive apartment building. John Cannon with the Houston Police Department tells CultureMap that, on Nov. 13, the legendary athlete’s two dogs — reported by BARC as a Springer Spaniel and Boxer — chased and killed a Yorkshire Terrier owned by Mary Lane, Lewis’ fellow resident at the Memorial Cove Lofts. Lewis’ son, who was watching the two dogs at the time, told his father the incident started when the Yorkie began barking at the Springer Spaniel, which lunged after the small dog. The Boxer quickly joined the fight, killing the Yorkie and biting its owner as she tried to break up the battle. Lane filed an HPD report the following morning, while BARC’s animal control team placed the two dogs under a 10-day rabies quarantine, a standard procedure following any bite case, according to BARC spokesperson Christopher Newport. more
