{"id":63317,"date":"2025-07-13T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:28:09","slug":"man-mauled-to-death-by-pit-bulls-in-l-a-county-backyard-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/63317\/","title":{"rendered":"Man mauled to death by pit bulls in L.A. County backyard, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man was killed by a pair of pit bulls in a backyard attack in Lancaster on Saturday night,  authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to a call about 10:30 p.m. reporting an animal attack on 22nd Street East. When authorities arrived, they found a man lying bloodied behind the home, said Deputy Maria Lucero. <\/p>\n<p>The dogs that attacked him were blocking the entrance to the yard, preventing deputies and paramedics from helping the man. <\/p>\n<p>A deputy shot and killed one of the pit bulls, allowing paramedics in. The man was taken to a hospital, where he died, Lucero said. <\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s identity has not yet been released. It is not clear if he lived at the home or was visiting.<\/p>\n<p>L.A. County Animal Control took four other dogs from the property. It was not immediately clear what would happen to the dogs. No one was arrested in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed by a pair of pit bulls in a backyard attack in Lancaster on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[45254,45253,45252,1582,276,4446,7726,24655,316,2961,45251,224,29417,2444,5337,2089,17820,7718,7207,44316],"class_list":{"0":"post-63317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-22nd-street-east","9":"tag-animal-attack","10":"tag-backyard-attack","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-death","14":"tag-deputy","15":"tag-dog","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-lancaster-pit-bull-attack","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-man","24":"tag-p-m","25":"tag-paramedic","26":"tag-police","27":"tag-saturday-night"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114848288312445512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}