{"id":104394,"date":"2026-01-19T04:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104394\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:45:23","slug":"59-year-old-man-mauled-to-death-by-pit-bull-on-staten-island-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104394\/","title":{"rendered":"59-year-old man mauled to death by pit bull on Staten Island, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYPD is investigating after a man was fatally mauled by a dog on Staten Island on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the attack happened at a home on New Dorp Lane in the New Dorp section of the borough.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/11-dog-mauls-man-on-staten-island-image.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"11-dog-mauls-man-on-staten-island-image.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police said a 59-year-old man was mauled to death inside a home on New Dorp Lane in the New Dorp section of the borough on Jan. 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>  What we know<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear if the victim lived in the home or if he was the dog&#8217;s owner. Investigators said the incident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, a 911 call came in after 4 p.m. to report a male attacked by a dog. Upon arrival, officers observed a 59-year-old man with multiple wounds around his body consistent with dog bites. EMS pronounced the victim, who was not immediately identified, dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the incident, police were seen at the home, which sources say was occupied by other people when officers arrived, but their relationship to the victim is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, said to be a pit bull, and was taken to the ASPCA, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay with CBS News New York on Monday morning for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is investigating after a man was fatally mauled by a dog on Staten Island on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[21466,9,24,63,103,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-104394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-dog-attack","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104394","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=104394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}