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It has been three weeks, a bit more, since Airen Andula, a 13-year-old seventh-grader known to be as sweetly kind as he was conscientious, stepped from his family’s mobile home on the Sunday morning before Christmas, hopped on his bicycle and pedaled off —a half mile around the neighborhood lake — to do a favor for friends, the Cloughs, and to tend to their pets. It was early in the morning and a 5-minute bike ride, but Airen never made it. Attacked along the way by a vicious dog or dogs, he was killed. But nobody, except perhaps for one man, heard or saw it happen. What’s made it even harder, residents say, is the struggle to come to terms with the alleged disturbing and criminal acts of Damon B. Leonard, the 47-year-old neighbor and friend to the Andulas. Leonard, now in custody, is the suspected owner of the dangerous dogs. The Andulas moved from the Kansas City area into “the country” about a year ago to be away from the dangers of city life. Some neighbors cast Leonard as someone who tended to yell at others for breaking rules that affected him and his property, such as driving faster than 10 miles per hour in front of his yard, while at other times, not tethering his own dogs. Read more about this death and how it’s rocked the Kansas town at the link above. Music courtesy of: Getty #PleasantonKansas #Kansas #AirenAndula #Kansasnews
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