{"id":104430,"date":"2026-01-19T06:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104430\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T06:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T06:40:07","slug":"man-59-mauled-to-death-by-a-pit-bull-in-nyc-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/104430\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 59, mauled to death by a pit bull in NYC home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was mauled to death by a pit bull dog inside a Staten Island home on Sunday afternoon, according to cops and sources.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a 911 call about a vicious animal inside a home on New Dorp Lane just after 4 p.m., according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.82206406;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38220512\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-19-at-122616\u202fAM.jpg\" alt=\"A man was mauled to death by a pit bull inside a Staten Island home Sunday afternoon\" class=\"wp-image-38220512\"  \/>A man was mauled to death by a pit bull inside a Staten Island home Sunday afternoon. CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>After arriving, officers found a 59-year-old man who had multiple wounds on his body that appeared consistent with dog bites, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was pronounced dead on the scene. It\u2019s not immediately clear if he lived in the home where the gruesome attack took place or if others were inside at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The dog, identified as a pit bull, was taken to the ASPCA, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Medical Examiner will officially determine the man\u2019s cause of death, police added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38220511\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AdobeStock_395578823.jpg\" alt=\"a 59-year-old man who had multiple wounds on his body that appeared consistent with dog bites\" class=\"wp-image-38220511\"  \/>A 59-year-old man was found with multiple wounds on his body that appeared consistent with dog bites. Beatrice \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the incident remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was mauled to death by a pit bull dog inside a Staten Island home on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11640,1015,57,9,56,63,65,64,11641,134,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-104430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-animal-attacks","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-pit-bulls","17":"tag-staten-island","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430","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=104430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}