A southwest Houston man was mauled and killed by his neighbor's dogs on Corsair Road.
UPDATE 08/07/24: Our nonprofit recently obtained records from BARC, the city of Houston's Municipal Animal Shelter, after submitting a FOIA. The records portray similar events as was left by @matthollymarshalls on YouTube after the attack. On July 6, 2024, police officers were dispatched to a residence in the 1500 block of Corsair Road in southwest Houston at about 2:30 pm for a report of a deceased man in the yard of his home. It was determined that three or four dogs were involved.
Animal control officers responded to the scene as other officers collected written statements from witnesses. The 87-year old male victim was deceased on the side of his home near his trash cans. Earlier, witnesses had seen the dog owner "retrieve the dogs from the deceased house and take them back home," states the report. Officers spoke to the owner who agreed to surrender the dogs, a pair of male and female rottweiler-mixes, a female German shepherd-mix, and a female chihuahua-mix.
"I then approached the address XXXXXX when a male resident came outside. He asked did we need anything. I asked him about the dogs at that address and their whereabouts and he told me that they were in the backyard and did something happen. I informed him that a witness placed the dogs from his address at a neighbor's house and that they caused serious bodily injury or death of a person. He did not appear to be surprised when I told him. We asked who was the person that took the dogs form the location and brought them back home and he stated that it was his grandfather." - BARC Animal Shelter Activity Report, City of Houston
The attack occurred on the victim's property near the garage. There was a truck in the driveway with both windows rolled down. A BARC officer observed "two trash cans on the ground with a couple of empty recycling bottles out. Between both houses, by the wall, there was the victim. He was laying down. He was naked and I noticed in front of his leg were red pieces of fabric, possibly his pants," states the report. Photographs of the house in the report show it was heavily raining at 2:30 pm.
Witness 1 told the officers that between 8:00 and 9:00 am, he saw three dogs charging the victim, who was defending himself with the trash cans. He told another person in his home, who went outside but reported he did not notice anything. Around 2:00 pm, Witness 1 went to get gas and "he saw what looked like legs," states the report. He returned home and went with another witness to investigate the man's yard. That it is when they saw the victim lying down. They returned home and called 911.
After the dogs attacked the victim on the side of his home, they retreated into the victim's backyard and remained there until 2:00 pm, when the witnesses discovered the man's body. This is when the witnesses saw the grandfather of the dogs' owner go into the victim's backyard and retrieve the three large dogs. One witness told police, "the owner looked more worried to protect the dogs than the victim," states the report. Multiple witnesses provided a written statement to authorities.
The male rottweiler, "Piri" and the female German shepherd, "Canela," had to be tranquilized in order to be impounded and loaded into the animal control truck. Upon arrival at the shelter, "since the dogs were signed over, we euthanized immediately at the shelter and emptied the stomach contents of each of the dogs," states the report. The victim sustained severe arm injuries. The circumstance of the bite is listed as "unprovoked" in the report, and the dogs were designated as "loose" at the time.
07/08/24: Houston, TX - A man was killed by one or more of his neighbor's dogs on July 6, 2024. The attack occurred around 2:30 pm on Corsair Road near Beltway 8. Police said the man died at the scene and the dog(s) are in the custody of BARC, the city of Houston's Municipal Animal Shelter. No other information was released, including the number and breeds of dogs involved, and the victim’s name or age. At the time of this attack, local media and law enforcement were preparing for hurricane Beryl.
On the KHOU YouTube page, a comment was left, seemingly by a local. The person said the victim was an 80-year old Hispanic man who lived alone. He was "last seen defending himself with his trash cans alongside his own house." A "large amount of tissue was torn off his body." The dogs had a history of getting loose. The commenter stated five dogs were involved and two rottweilers "ate him." Now, "everyone is afraid to walk around." The dogs have been confiscated and will be euthanized.
@matthollymarshalls - "It was 5 dogs total. Two Rottweilers fkn ATE him... The 80 year old Hispanic man living alone was attacked, was last seen defending himself with his trash cans alongside his own house. Large amount of tissue were torn off his body. These dogs lived in the area and got out alot, owned by a younger man nearby. The dogs all got stuck in the old mans back yard, and when told, the owners grandfather went and let the dogs out of the yard to run home. All dogs were eventually taken by the police to be put down. Charges?? Unknown. People who own badass dogs to protect themselves in this bad world, must balance the responsibility they have to their neighbors. And everyone is afraid to walk around now. Sad world. RIP Mr. Old Man, wish you had a better end...sad sad story."
Because this investigation in currently active, and there's barely enough information to file a FOIA with BARC, there is not much we can do except to wait. The medical examiner will eventually release the victim's name and preliminary cause and of manner of death upon request. Once that information is known, we can request the quarantine records, breed information, and hopefully, a brief narrative from BARC. We do not expect any further media reports about this man's brutal dog mauling death.
Attacking dog pack from top left: "Piri" (male rottweiler-mix), "Dequesa" (female rottweiler-mix), "Canela" (female German shepherd-mix), and "Jolly" (female chihuahua-mix).
Recent fatal dog maulings in Harris County, Texas, which encompasses the city of Houston. The population is estimated to be 4.7 million, the third most populated county in the US. This attack occurred on the border of Fort Bend County, which is adjacent to Harris County.
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Why cannot people be responsible dog owners? Five large dogs together are a very dangerous pack. Besides, they often will kill each other.
I used to own a lot of GSDs which were always confined with a limit of two dogs together. In other words, no person would ever be dealing with over two dogs at a time.
The worst injury was clothing removal on a juvenile delinquent. (No exaggeration. His parents didn’t allow him to be alone with any dog. Prison later.)
I hope the dogs’ owners are charged criminally.
No one should die by being ripped apart by dogs.
This is why I have a weapon on me even in my own fenced yard. You just never know.
I’m with you KaD. Too many pits and pit mixes in our neighborhood. One, a half block away kept getting out because the owners toddlers would let it escape, after it’s 3rd attack on another neighbor’s small dog, the county got involved, now it’s not allowed out of its yard, and when there it has a muzzle on.
Poor man doing normal every day things.then not one dog not two but five dogs that killed him sad he was trying to defend himself with the trash cans was they all Rottweiler are some are pitbull I’m glad they put the doofus dogs down and I hope he get hunted every day with the old men death because of him.
The way these horrific deaths don’t receive much in the way of media attention makes them so much scarier. Like people are being picked off one by one and no one cares to talk about it. Another life lost – oh well!
I totally agree. How is this not national news? It should never, ever happen.
But a non-fatal shark attack on the Florida coast is sure to attract a flock of national correspondents. Pit bull attacks are a public health crisis as evidenced by number of fatal attacks in this country over the last two and a half weeks.
We had a non-fatal attack spree of four injured by a single shark on the Texas coast around the same time span, much MUCH less common than dog fatality in Texas.
It’s like pit bulls are still getting a pass to do whatever, because people just love those big ol’ sweet wigglebutts so much! No one wants to bring negative attention to the breed that might damage its image from The Dodo or slow down donations and adoptions of this super awesome amazing breed! >_>
File murder charges on the dogs’ owner. Convict him and let some great people killing dogs or some lions pull him apart. Of course, we couldn’t do that; but how is letting one’s dogs kill someone acceptable? This needs to stop!
This happened about five miles away from my home (Off the beltway and 288 on the map) and I’m just now seeing this death mentioned only in this blog. I live less than a mile from where the teen girl had her arm ripped off by her parent’s rottweiler a few years ago. Different economic levels between the two maulings yet the dogs stay the same. Horrible end for that man who had lived so long and probably learned to adapt and survive until that day.
Another dead senior. Dr. Duke is right. It’s a maulocaust on seniors this year and ain’t nobody but us paying it any attention.
The journos are too worried about their jobs and offending the twitter (excuse me, “X”) mobs to bother covering it.
This post has been updated after the FOIA came through.