Area where a husky is blamed for a deadly dog bite to a homeless man.
Victim Identified
UPDATE 08/14/24: The Fresno County Sheriff's Office has identified the dog mauling victim as 49-year old Ivon Rocher Garces of Fresno. "Staff at the Coroner’s Office have searched numerous personal records, but their attempts to find relatives have been unsuccessful," states a release from the Fresno County Sheriff's Office. "Locating immediate family members is a necessary process in order for the Coroner’s Unit to release the body and allow the person to have a proper burial."
"On July 4th, around 5:00 am, a person reported hearing screams coming from an orchard near the intersection of North and Peach Avenues in Fresno. There they made contact with an injured homeless person, later identified as Ivon Garces, who said they were just attacked by a Husky type of dog. Deputies and EMS personnel responded and got Garces transported to the hospital. Due to a significant loss of blood, Garces eventually died." - Fresno County Sheriff's Office
07/05/24: Man Dies After Dog Bite
Fresno County, CA - A man experiencing homelessness died after he told Fresno County sheriff's deputies he was attacked by a husky early Thursday morning. Deputies were dispatched to the area of South Peach Avenue and East North Avenue just before 5:00 am for reports of screaming coming from a nearby orchard, an agricultural zoned property. Deputies found the injured man, who remains unidentified, who said he had been attacked by a husky and was bleeding badly from his arm.
Audio dispatch log files from the Fresno County Sheriff's Office published on Broadcastify also reflect this account. "Peach and North. It would be an unsheltered subject. Says he was attacked by a husky. Bleeding from his arm," dispatch states. "The location is showing center of the orchard northeast of the 10-20. He is estimated [58] years old," dispatch states. [unintelligible directional instructions] "He is currently conscious and breathing, and bleeding seriously from his arm" [unintelligible].
The man was transported to a hospital, but due to a significant loss of blood, reports KSEE/KGPE, he died shortly afterward. The dog that attacked the man has not been located. After reviewing the area with mapping tools, our map shows a red balloon at a home where multiple pit bulls are seen inside and outside of its fencing in Google Street View. The "orchard" is the nearby agricultural property (seen in the KFSN video), where the man was apparently located, and designated in orange.
The orchard property is bordered by the Washington Canal on the West and North Avenue on the South. In the 17 years of tracking dog bite fatalities, a husky, acting alone, has never killed an adult. Fatal husky attacks nearly exclusively (17 of 19, 89%) involve killing infants and children ≤5 years old. The two adult deaths include a pit bull and a husky jointly killing 22-year old Rebecca Hardy in 2015, and a pack of dogs, which included two huskies, jointly killing 84-year old Loretta Moore in 2021.
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Law enforcement departments across the United States should release consistent "baseline" information to the media and the public after each fatal dog mauling, including these items.
It got up to 109°F in Fresno today. Huskies don’t belong in a southern climate – but dog ownership is frequently done in a completely stupid way. I hope they will try to find, with certainty, the dog that did this.
It seems to me it ought to be technically possible to save a patient with a limb injury. I’m not sure whether Fresno paramedics are able to administer blood transfusions. I have heard that bleeding injuries can be the one case where it may make sense to drive the patient to the hospital rather than waiting for the ambulance to arrive. This case seems to have multiple layers of tragedy. My condolences to the surviving friends and family.
Another tragedy. The man certainly should have been able to identify a husky. If the injury had been caught earlier, he should have survived.
This type of attack is not what pitbulls do. Pitbulls would more likely go for the neck.
I hope the police are able to find and identify the
killer dog.
Pits have mangled arms before so it wouldn’t have been totally unusual.
Eyewitnesses often give incorrect testimony, particularly when they have been injured.
Detective Joe Kenda describes a case in his book where a shooting victim in a 7-11 described the shooter as white when he turned out to be black.
If a victim can get that wrong it would not be impossible to mistake a pit for a husky in the dark while you are bleeding to death.
Frankly I would like to know where the dogs in the Google street view were that night, if they even still live at that house.
The could obviously clear that fence.
A woman commented on CBS47 Fresno Facebook page: “IVE BEEN REPORTING A PACK OF 15+ DOGS HUSKY AND SHEPHERD MIXES FOR MONTHS IN THE EXACT LOCATION AND NOTHING IS DONE!!!” The woman included a picture of said dogs. Animal control apparently didn’t round up the pack of dogs. Poor man. 😞
Of course Animal (un)Control didn’t round them up. I expect that due to “no kill” policies, their shelter is probably overflowing with dangerous pit bulls that nobody wants.
So, the pit bull lobby contributes to this death, but perhaps indirectly.
Packs of dogs are often dangerous. Breed may not be extremely important.
Poor man it bad enough he doesn’t have a home he could lived comfortably in.but he died a painful death he be alive if they did something about the pack of dogs I wonder if they’re loose dogs or a dog breeder that breeds to much he can’t control the dogs do he just dumped them in the street.
Legitimate, honest breeders do not turn their dogs loose on the streets. Backyard
breeders who don’t care about their dogs might let them roam.
This man has been identified. No other information was released.