Cameras capture Pablo Rocha knocked to the ground and attacked by two pit bulls on May 25, 2024. The victim, who is 6'6', escaped by scaling a tall fence. The dogs belong to occupants of a nearby RV. Police arrested two suspects in this case.
A San Francisco man who survived a vicious attack by not one, but two pit bulls says he's lucky to be alive. Pable Rocha said he escaped being mauled to death by scaling a tall fence.A short walk home from the gym near Alameda and Vermont Streets took a terrifying, nearly fatal turn just after 6 pm on May 25th for Rocha. Surveillance video shows Rocha taken down by two pit bulls. He tries to get up multiple times, but is attacked again and again.Another camera captures his escape.
"I just remember the noise of my bicep muscle being stretched," Rocha recalled. "In that moment, I thought I would die, I don't believe I would die like this, I just thought I would die," he said as he choked up. "I saw my friend was trying to help me, but the dogs were just ignore him," added Rocha. "This gate saved my life."Rocha's friend Eduardo Pajeu tried unsuccessfully to fight the dogs with a water bottle, and ran to get help.
"It's been the better part of seven years that we've been fighting to get our neighborhood cleaned up, and it gets cleaned up, it comes back," said Robert Fountain, Rocha's husband. "We call 3-1-1 constantly."Fountain, has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years. In that time, he's witnessed its degradation. He says the RV where the dogs emerged from had been parked under the freeway overpass for months.
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