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A nine-year-old Brooklyn girl was found dead in the apartment she shared with her mom, sister and a pit bull with trauma to her head and bite marks on her back.
Shalom Guifarro's mother, Shamaine Cato, 48, allegedly waited two hours to call 911 after the child died on Sunday. Police arrived at the scene in Crown Height just after 1pm, and attempted to revive the girl.
Bart Hubbuch, who owns Memphis Seoul, the ground-floor restaurant on Lincoln Place in the same, building told the New York Times that even police appeared to be wiping away tears because the scene was so grisly.
'They said it was a horrific crime scene,' Hubbuch told the newspaper.
Police said that the child appeared to have been bitten on the back.
Detectives are investigating the death of 9-year-old Shalom Guifarro who was found in her family's Crown Heights home suffering from head trauma with bite marks on her back
Inside the fourth-floor apartment of Shamaine Cato, 48, where her 9-year-old daughter was found dead with bite marks on her back
Police have not made any arrests as yet and are awaiting the the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner autopsy report on the cause and manner of death.
Neighbors said that they frequently heard the mother screaming at the girls and a pit-bull mix dog that they kept in the apartment.
'She was crazy,' neighbor Rey Santiago told the Times. He said that he saw the mother shove and yell at her children.
