An elderly man was fatally mauled by a pack of pitbulls that terrorized a Washington Park, Illinois, community for years.
On Thursday evening, 68-year-old James Gibson was attacked by at least five ‘mixed breed’ dogs and died at the scene.
According to reports, when police finally arrived to the scene, they found Gibson with his face torn off.
Washington Park police shot three of the dogs but the other ones ran away,
Fox 2 reported that neighbors were terrified of the wandering pack of dogs for years.
A photo of the killer dogs was caught on Google Street View Images a few months ago.
Man bitten to death by “mixed breed” dogs. Police found his face torn off.
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Fox 2 reported:
After a fatal dog attack on Thursday night, people living in a Washington Park neighborhood say they have dealt with a pack of wandering dogs for years and feared something like this would eventually happen.
The Washington Park Police Department tells FOX 2 the victim has been identified as 68-year-old James. L Gibson.
Gibson was mauled and killed by a pack of dogs around 10:45 p.m. Thursday in the 2100 block of N. 49th Street, according to Washington Park police.
Police investigators believe the dogs are strays, but people who live on 49th Street claim that’s not the case.
Aretha Harper, who lives nearby, said she had encountered the same dogs just hours earlier. Harper said the dogs are familiar to people who live in the area and that residents are usually able to shoo them away. But she said one of the dogs followed her up her front steps Thursday.
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