Left: Mario Alberto Mendoza Pena (Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Guadalupe Carreon (Aransas County Sheriff’s Office). Inset: Lewis Flores (GoFundMe).
Two individuals in Texas have actually been detained after a pack of 5 dogs apparently assaulted and trampled a 40-year-old man to death recently.
Guadalupe Carreon and Mario Alberto Mendoza Pena were both apprehended and charged with attack by dog leading to death in the gruesome death of Lewis Flores, authorities validated to Law&Crime. Attack by dog leading to death is a second-degree felony punishable by an optimal sentence of as much as twenty years in a state reformatory.
According to a press release from the Aransas County Sheriff’s Office, deputies reacted at about 5 a.m. on June 20 to an emergency situation call relating to a report of a man asking for help at a place in the 1000 block of San Antonio Street. Upon coming to the scene, very first responders said they discovered a man — later on determined as Flores — who was “on the ground being attacked by several dogs” a number of blocks far from where the occurrence was initially reported to be happening.
When among the deputies stepped in to stop the attack, the animals “turned their aggression on the officer who fired and believes he struck one of the dogs,” the release states. Following the gun discharging, the animals all got away from the location and emergency situation responders started to carry out CPR on the victim. Animal Control representatives were dispatched to the scene. The victim ultimately wound up near the corner of Corpus Christi Street and Monkey Road, obstructs far from where the occurrence apparently began.
Emergency Medical Services workers transferred Flores to the emergency clinic of Bay Area Hospital while police officers processed the scene and gathered his possessions, the Aransas County Sheriff’s Office said. Meanwhile, Animal Control had the ability to find a few of the animals who apparently assaulted Flores and apprehended them with warrants.
Flores caught his injuries a brief while after coming to the medical facility and was noticable dead, the constable’s declaration said.
