A person is in important situation after being attacked by 5 dogs in a West Philadelphia neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Police shot on the dogs, killing certainly one of them.
Police and neighbors say the incident began in an individual’s yard on the 1500 block of North Robinson Street simply earlier than 1:30 p.m.
The police captain and a neighbor advised NBC10 that the 60-year-old sufferer was seemingly disoriented when he walked by the “watch out for dogs” indicators and right into a slim alleyway earlier than he opened the gate to a yard the place the dogs had been situated.
“He didn’t know the place he was at. So when the girl got here out that lived there she simply advised him to get off the property. So when he was getting off the property as an alternative of him coming again to the road, he went by way of her walkway to the alley,” neighbor Kenny McGraw stated.
The dogs attacked him on sight.
When officers arrived on the scene they needed to pull the dogs off of the person who fell unconscious earlier than taking pictures two of the 5. One of these dogs died. The man was taken to a close-by hospital the place he’s listed in important situation.
“He seen the dogs was in there and he simply actually opened up the gate, why? We don’t know,” McGraw advised NBC10.
Police describe the dogs concerned as Staffordshire Bull Terriers. Three of them had been nonetheless within the yard as officers labored to scrub up the scene.
Officials are working to establish the sufferer who neighbors say has suffered from strokes previously and is commonly disoriented.
