{"id":104303,"date":"2026-01-19T01:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104303\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T01:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:41:19","slug":"pitbull-attack-kills-59-year-old-man-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104303\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitbull attack kills 59-year-old man on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BNTPVZ5VOFBFLPMDGPJQ76XJLY\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A man was fatally attacked by a pit bull at a home in New Dorp Sunday night, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6Y7I3H7B3JHZTGTN4XLSWIUNTE\">Officers responded to a 911 call around 7 p.m. at 608 New Dorp Lane, according to preliminary information provided by an NYPD spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"H6CKCZX2AZCY3HXG3RTNOAJAME\">Upon arrival, officers found a 59-year-old man with severe dog bite wounds about the body. FDNY\/EMS responded and pronounced the man dead at the scene, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MONQRJDC2JDJZFFJQGU4MVUWCY\">The identity of the victim has not been released. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7P2MBVG7RBA7NKZIP2222JMVSU\">An NYPD Emergency Services Unit removed the dog from the home and transported it to the ASPCA, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"624DURXNGJHURKUMDI3AL6GRV4\">There have been no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A man was fatally attacked by a pit bull at a home in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-104303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}