A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy shot and killed a dog that authorities say attacked a man in the front yard of a home in Lancaster Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded to a home on 20th Street West near West Avenue K8 after receiving a call about a dog attack just before 10 a.m., according to the sheriff’s department. There, they saw a pit bull “viciously attacking” the man, who was lying down and appeared to be unresponsive and trapped inside the yard, the LASD said.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t clear what prompted the attack.<\/p>\n
Officials said the yard was fenced and had a locked gate, preventing deputies from intervening quickly. When a deputy made it inside, they made verbal commands but was unable to stop the attack, leading the deputy to open fire, according to the department.<\/p>\n
The dog was hit by gunfire and died at the scene, the LASD said.<\/p>\n
Deputies provided first aid to the man, who was later taken to the hospital. Details about his injuries were not released, though the LASD said he was stable.<\/p>\n
Investigators say preliminary information indicates a family member who lives with the man owned the pit bull.<\/p>\n
No one else was injured during the attack or shooting.<\/p>\n
The case remains under investigation and is being reviewed in accordance with the sheriff’s department policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy shot and killed a dog that authorities say attacked a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,5842,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-406125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lancaster","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}