{"id":457551,"date":"2026-09-08T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457551\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:30:19","slug":"person-seriously-injured-in-san-franciscos-tenderloin-dog-attack-dog-dead-sfpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457551\/","title":{"rendered":"Person seriously injured in San Francisco&#8217;s Tenderloin dog attack; dog dead: SFPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bay City News logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.abcotvs.net\/abcotv\/static\/common\/origins\/origin-bay-city-news.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:30PM<\/p>\n<p>Stream local breaking news and original programming, live 24\/7, from ABC7 Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; A person was attacked and seriously injured by a dog in San Francisco&#8217;s Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim was attacked by a pit bull at about 9:20 a.m. in the 500 block of Larkin Street, according to San Francisco Police Chief Derrick Lew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They were taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries a Police Department spokesperson described as life-threatening in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/19807039_090826-kgo-sf-dog-attack-2-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lew said the dog died at some point after being transferred to the custody of San Francisco Animal Care and Control but could not confirm details as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lew said the dog was alive when police officers arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Police Department&#8217;s statement said the dog was next to the victim when officers arrived and that officers separated the two before the animal was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Stay with ABC7 News for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright  2026 by Bay City News, Inc. Republication, re-transmission or reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. Is prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, September 8, 2026 8:30PM Stream local breaking news and original programming, live 24\/7, from ABC7 Bay Area.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[180542,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-457551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-180542","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457551","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=457551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}