{"id":406333,"date":"2026-07-21T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:16:09","slug":"deputy-kills-dog-during-attack-in-la-county-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406333\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Kills Dog During Attack In LA County: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies responded to a home in the 43200 block of 20th Street West after receiving a report of the incident around 10 a.m. and arrived to find the man lying in the front yard while a pit bull \u201cwas actively and viciously attacking him,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s department said in an advisory. The man was unresponsive and trapped in the yard, which was fenced with a locked gate, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA deputy entered the yard in an effort to stop the attack,\u201d the advisory said. \u201cAfter issuing verbal commands that were ineffective, the deputy discharged their firearm. Only the attacking dog was struck, immediately stopping the attack. The dog was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies responded to a home in the 43200 block of 20th Street West after receiving a report of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-406333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","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\/406333","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=406333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}