A magistrate has ordered the two dogs killed in a Dec. 12 attack on six people at a Wellington pharmacy.

The owners of two pit bulls set to be killed after they attacked several people outside a Wellington pharmacy have asked for a new hearing.

But a lawyer for Palm Beach County argued that the evidence was compelling enough the first time. And said the owner's two adult daughters cornered an 11-year-old victim and her 12-year-old friend in a restroom during a break in a hearing and tried to intimidate them into changing their stories.

Had this been in regular court, an assistant county attorney wrote, the daughters' actions would have been a crime.

A hearing on whether to rehear the case is set for Feb. 22.

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Steven Logan, the family's attorney, said Thursday "there was no intimidation" and that if he loses a rehearing, he "will timely file an appeal," which would stop the clock on the dogs, who otherwise could be put down as soon as early March.

On Dec. 12, the 2-year-old siblings escaped from their owner's car outside a Walgreens on Greenview Shores Boulevard just north of Wellington High School, according to county Animal Care and Control reports.

Leasha Seale of Greenacres and her daughter Abby, 11, were attacked. Abby's friend Alyssa Brockett, 12, was not hurt. Kari Taylor of Wellington was stepping from her car when one of the dogs bit her. And Walgreens employee Vania Cancela was bitten as she tried to help Taylor inside the store. Paul Papazoglou, the pit bulls' owner, was bitten as he tried to rein in the dogs.

On Jan. 31, following an emotional all-day hearing, Magistrate Earl Mallory declared 55-pound Rhaegar and his sister, 45-pound Arya, as "vicious," meaning they must be put down.

On Feb. 5, Logan filed a motion for a new hearing, mostly focusing on sparing Arya.

He claimed only Abby was said to have been bitten by the female, and Abby later said she wasn't sure. And even then, Logan argued, the girl "suffered the least severe injury descriptions" and Arya should have been declared "dangerous," a classification which requires severe restrictions by owners but removes the death penalty.

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Logan presented a hand-written statement by Papazoglou's adult daughter, Danielle Pappas, saying she and her sister, Alexandra Pappas, ran into Abby and Alyssa in the ladies' room and "they both said how they knew Arya did not bite anyone."

In a response, Assistant County Attorney Shannon Fox said Alyssa picked out Arya's photo as the dog who bit Abby and that she "was the witness in the best position to observe," since she was the only one not bitten.

Fox said the meeting in the ladies' room happened differently than the women described. She said they "cornered" the girls" and "should have known better than to take advantage of children." She said that "if this were a court proceeding," their conduct "would constitute witness harassment or tampering," which could be charged as a misdemeanor or even a felony.

Alyssa wrote that the two women "were very upset and tried to make Abby and I feel guilty that the dogs would be killed." But, she said, "Arya was the dog that grabbed Abby."

Fox also urged the magistrate not to make the two girls miss another day of school for a second hearing that she said would be "fruitless, burdensome for the witnesses, and waste of taxpayer money."