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It was just before 7:30 Tuesday morning, around the time Shamonte Clayton’s southwest Atlanta neighborhood comes alive, when the sleeping resident was jarred awake by the sounds of children screaming. Alarmed, because these screams weren’t accompanied by the routine giggles of most school mornings, Clayton told local media he grabbed his gun and ran outside. What he found was grisly chaos – panicked parents, flocking neighbors and a pack of scared schoolchildren shielding themselves from the jaws of several loose dogs circling the area. Those dogs, identified by officials as a pit bull mix and border collie, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, had already attacked. Clayton told WXIA-TV he saw two more children, badly bitten, laying on the ground, a 5-year-old girl, Syari Sanders, and a boy, 6-year-old Logan Braatz. Nearby the boy’s limp body hovered his shocked mother. “I picked up the child’s body because the mother couldn’t do nothing but sit there and just cry,” Clayton told the AJC, “.