A man was killed by his three XL bullies in Mesa Viking Park in San Diego on Friday.
Killed by XL Bullies
San Diego, CA - A Mira Mesa man is dead after being mauled by his XL bullies in a neighborhood park. After a 911 call reporting a dog attack, police were dispatched to a children's playground in Mesa Viking Park in the 11000 block of Westonhill Drive. Officers used a Taser to stop the attack. The man had been with his own child, who was unharmed. Bystanders intervened by hitting the dogs with shovels and a golf club, which were found at the scene, along with torn clothing and a shoe.
The park is located next to Ericson Elementary School. Police quickly captured two of the dogs, but a third remained at large, causing police to lockdown the school. Police later found the third dog at the owner's home, which is close to the park. NBC San Diego reports that one of the bystanders who intervened was also attacked by the dogs. Both victims were taken to Scripps Memorial Hospital, where the dog owner was pronounced dead at 4:45 pm. The status of the second victim is unknown.
Neighbor Steve Marto captured photos of the dogs while police were at the scene. "They were big. I guess they call them XL bullies. They are just like massive muscle," Marto said. His son, Stewart Marto, said, "I don't understand why someone would want to have three dogs that size. You're just looking for a problem in my opinion." All three dogs were confiscated by the San Diego Humane Society and placed into bite quarantine. The dog owner's young son is now with his mother, police said.
The Martos also spoke to 10News. "You don't really have stuff like this that happens here... Like somebody's face got mangled at this park. An hour from now this park can be filled with kids coming out of that school. It's sad that that could've happened to little kids -- the elementary school's right here," Stewart said. Like his father, he also described the XL bullies as massive. "These dogs were freakin' huge. They were probably close to 120 to 150 pound dogs," Stewart told NBC San Diego.
At least one XL bully being confiscated at Mesa Viking Park after the fatal dog mauling.
Torn clothing, a shoe and broken golf club seen at the Mesa Viking Park dog attack scene.
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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.
This is in my county. You found the one out of four or five news articles that actually mentioned the breed of dog; the others did not and one even said that information was not available. Great pictures of the dogs, too, Colleen.
XL bullies and the Cane Corso are becoming more and more popular on Craigslist Pets, being re-homed as adults and as puppies in San Diego county and adjoining counties. This does not bode well.
It’s unclear why other media did not identify the breed. XL bullies are well publicized, especially given that the UK, Scotland and Ireland banned the breed over the past year. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ban-on-xl-bully-dogs
As a former broadcast journalist, I’m always alert to whether or not the breed of dog is identified. Because news outlets get so much pushback from viewers, they often don’t mention the breed. It’s unfortunate because it would be one way of educating the public. Also, news outlets love their “feel good” stories about some poor pittie that needs to be adopted. In addition to pharmaceutical commercials, the behemoth pet food industry is buying time-it’s a major source of revenue. That’s why dog attacks in general are often not even covered. It’s the old adage: Follow the money.
It’s a miracle this idiot only got himself killed and no kids were hurt. This is why pits need to be regulated.
You can’t trust pit owners to use common sense like NOT taking three dogs (when they likely couldn’t handle ONE acting up) to a kids park next to a kids school.
Yep, KaD, my thought as well, wth would anyone take one mauler to a kids park, much less, three?? I’m sorry his child had to witness that, but relieved it was the adult owner who got the business end of his mutants, NOT his child.
And I’m sure like every other pit owner he’d swear up and down that ‘My dogs would never”.
I read that a lot of them are descended from one stud dog that had his sperm shipped to England and spread across the USA. They are monsters. It was horrible for children to witness that. They are also inbred from that monster stud dog who was actually a killer. I have forgotten where I read the article, unfortunately.
Killer Kimbo and others, which served as foundation stock. Much has been written about this, here is one: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/14/britains-xl-bullys-descend-one-inbred-pet-us-killer-kimbo/
Another horrific, bloody attack. And, again, a Good Samaritan was also injured. (We don’t know yet how badly.) And, imagine what this poor child witnessed. He or she is scarred for life after watching their father torn to shreds by the family dogs. Thank God no other children were present.
I can’t stop thinking about what that child witnessed, either – and it was an entirely preventable tragedy caused only by (I presume) the father’s desire to own “tough” dogs. It’s a miracle the dogs didn’t turn on the child as well, or target the child first, as pitbulls tend to do.
The only reason why they don’t mention the dog is a pitbull in a fatal dog attack is because they don’t want to anger the pitbull cult. Do I feel bad for him heck no.I only feel bad for his baby.Christmas is around the corner and his son can’t spend it with him and he is going miss his son growing up too because of his own lovable pitbull kill him .I’m glad the dog didn’t harm the little boy.who care how big the dog is that nothing why are they a big deal of it a little boy witness his dad brutal death from dogs that more important the the size of the dogs.
Yet another example of FAFO.
I’m not going to say much about his XLbullies. He was probably brainwashed into believing XLbullies were much
safer than pitbulls. Isn’t the biggest problem pitbulls and people don’t trust them? Most folks probably don’t know
the breeds to make XLbullies.