PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A new Arizona law will hold dog owners accountable when their dogs bite. The bite and run law is meant to prevent stories like one in Gilbert, where a boy was attacked by a dog, and the owner ran off .

“He jumped on me and I was trying to push him away but he kept hanging on to me and I couldn’t do anything,” said then 9-year-old Matthew Richardson after a February 2023 attack at Crossroads Dog Park in Gilbert .

The boy was rushed to the hospital with cuts and puncture wounds from a dog attack at the park. For his family, one of the most painful parts was that the owner ran and never came back.

“My personal opinion is, there are good people and bad people, and this man is a coward. He ran away after my son was injured,” said Will Richardson. “I don’t understa

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