It was a Parsons Jack Russelll. The "child" was an 18 yr old, 200 pound girl who has lived next to us since the jack was born and kicked at him every chance she got.. They never liked him because his bark was intemidating (he had a very male voice). He never bit anyone in his life, and he weighed 35 pounds. I was not home when he escaped through a hole he made in the fence to get at the neighbor's 11 feral cats! No justification for this killing.