By Isabelle Stanley For Dailymail.Com
16:24 17 Feb 2024, up to date 16:27 17 Feb 2024
- The dogs – 5 grownup and eight puppy pitbulls – are actually within the care of animal management
- Video confirmed a girl escaping from the yard over a excessive wall after the attack as police and firefighters captured the dogs
Shocking images captured the chaotic and grotesque aftermath of a deadly canine attack the place a person was mauled to loss of life by his 13 pitbulls in his yard in Los Angeles.
LAPD officers had been known as to the home on the 900 block of Thorson Avenue, Compton, at 7am on Friday after a involved buddy went to the home and found his physique.
Officials consider he was a breeder and had gone into the yard to feed the dogs on Thursday evening when a struggle broke out between the animals and so they turned on him.
Helicopter footage confirmed his bloodied physique mendacity face down in one of many enclosures in his yard whereas 5 grownup pitbulls and eight puppies ran round and fought.
The man’s id has not but been launched, however neighbors instructed native information he was a 35-year-old man who lived alone.
His buddy known as police early on Friday saying ‘her buddy was seen within the yard and appeared to have been mauled by his canine’.
Police, firemen and animal management then descended on the home, climbing over the roof to get to the yard and spherical up the dogs.
They discovered 5 adults and eight puppies – aged between 4 and 6 months – and corralled them right into a neighboring yard to get to the person’s physique.
Meanwhile a girl who had in some way entered the yard tried to climb up a wall to get out and needed to be helped by firefighters.
Michael Gomez with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau instructed KTLA5: ‘He was feeding the dogs at which level possibly there was an altercation between a few of the dogs and [they] finally attacked and mauled the sufferer.’
L.A. County’s Animal Care & Control mentioned: ‘Preliminary info means that the deceased individual was concerned in breeding and promoting Pitbulls.’
The sufferer’s father has now signed the dogs over to animal management for ‘impoundment and examination’.
DACC Director Marcia Mayeda instructed KTLA5: ‘Our deepest sympathies are prolonged to the household and associates of the sufferer.
‘We are dedicated to conducting a radical investigation to find out the information and make sure the security and well-being of each the group and the animals concerned.’
Damian Wesley with Compton Animal Rescue instructed the outlet: ‘I hope that consciousness is unfold… that folks have to take nice care of their dogs.
‘People want to grasp that these dogs can kill someone and damage individuals.’
There had been no earlier reviews of the dogs attacking individuals, however one neighbor instructed Fox News that a number of of the dogs had gotten out and attacked his chickens earlier than.
California doesn’t have any statewide bans of un-neutered pitbulls, some cities have launched particular guidelines themselves, however not Compton.
Shocking images present aftermath of horror pit bull attack the place LA breeder was viciously mauled to loss of life by pack of 13 dogs as he tried to feed them in yard kennel