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Terry Ayala was stirred from her Sunday afternoon nap by loud barking.
When she peered from the bedroom window of her Northeast Side house, a horrific sight was unfolding in the yard next door.
Ayala's neighbor, Malko Oswald, was on the ground behind his house with his 50-pound pit bull latched to his face.
Ayala screamed for her husband, retired San Antonio police officer Hector Ayala. He leapt from the living room chair where he was watching the first half of the Dallas Cowboys game and raced to the backyard fence, screaming at the dog to stop.
The dog ignored Ayala's shouts, locking its jaws on Oswald, and chewing at the right side of his owner's face and arm.
Ayala then grabbed his Glock 9 mm handgun from the house and fired a shot into the ground, finally scaring the dog off his owner. He said the gun was a retirement present from the police department.
As of late Sunday, Oswald, 48, was in stable condition at Brooke Army Medical Center with lacerations to his face and arm and puncture wounds to his side.
After the dog released him, Oswald struggled to his feet, leaning on a clothesline pole as Ayala burst through his neighbor's front door to help him. "I coaxed Mike to walk to the (back) porch," Ayala, 59, said. The dog paced in front of its kennel as Ayala pulled his neighbor into the front yard.
A wide blood smear on the glass front door of the house in the 5800 block of Sun Bay was still visible later in the afternoon.
"I just wanted to make sure he was OK," Ayala said of rushing to help his neighbor. "Today the damn dog just turned on him and got the better part of Mike."
Neighbors said they haven't heard of any past problems with the pit bull, one of three dogs Oswald owns. The other dogs are not pit bulls.
Pastor Dorothy Mack of Faith Harvest Church, who lives on the other side of Oswald, said neighborhood children often play in Oswald's backyard without any problems.
To hear about today's attack, that's sad, he's quite a sweet man," Mack said. "God bless that man. We'll be praying for him."
A police report said animal control officers retrieved the pit bull.
This is at least the third pit bull attack in San Antonio this year.
On May 7, two pit bulls killed a 13-year-old shih tzu and mauled a 60-year-old jogger in north San Antonio. On Feb. 8, a pit bull attacked three people on the South Side.
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1072142
When she peered from the bedroom window of her Northeast Side house, a horrific sight was unfolding in the yard next door.
Ayala's neighbor, Malko Oswald, was on the ground behind his house with his 50-pound pit bull latched to his face.
Ayala screamed for her husband, retired San Antonio police officer Hector Ayala. He leapt from the living room chair where he was watching the first half of the Dallas Cowboys game and raced to the backyard fence, screaming at the dog to stop.
The dog ignored Ayala's shouts, locking its jaws on Oswald, and chewing at the right side of his owner's face and arm.
Ayala then grabbed his Glock 9 mm handgun from the house and fired a shot into the ground, finally scaring the dog off his owner. He said the gun was a retirement present from the police department.
As of late Sunday, Oswald, 48, was in stable condition at Brooke Army Medical Center with lacerations to his face and arm and puncture wounds to his side.
After the dog released him, Oswald struggled to his feet, leaning on a clothesline pole as Ayala burst through his neighbor's front door to help him. "I coaxed Mike to walk to the (back) porch," Ayala, 59, said. The dog paced in front of its kennel as Ayala pulled his neighbor into the front yard.
A wide blood smear on the glass front door of the house in the 5800 block of Sun Bay was still visible later in the afternoon.
"I just wanted to make sure he was OK," Ayala said of rushing to help his neighbor. "Today the damn dog just turned on him and got the better part of Mike."
Neighbors said they haven't heard of any past problems with the pit bull, one of three dogs Oswald owns. The other dogs are not pit bulls.
Pastor Dorothy Mack of Faith Harvest Church, who lives on the other side of Oswald, said neighborhood children often play in Oswald's backyard without any problems.
To hear about today's attack, that's sad, he's quite a sweet man," Mack said. "God bless that man. We'll be praying for him."
A police report said animal control officers retrieved the pit bull.
This is at least the third pit bull attack in San Antonio this year.
On May 7, two pit bulls killed a 13-year-old shih tzu and mauled a 60-year-old jogger in north San Antonio. On Feb. 8, a pit bull attacked three people on the South Side.
http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1072142
