Police are searching for a man who stabbed a couple's dog in New York City's Central Park.
The vicious attack unfolded just a few feet inside the park at East 106th Street and Fifth Avenue on Saturday night around 8:30 p.m.
Police said a couple, a 51-year-old man along with a 43-year-old woman, were walking their two dogs, a chihuahua and Eli, a pit bull German shepherd mix. Both animals were on a leash. The suspect, with his three dogs, possibly pit bull terriers, were off-leash. Witnesses said the suspect's dogs started biting the victim's dogs, and there was an argument with the woman trying to separate the pack."There was a dog on the ground that was dead, a lot of blood around it, a guy was trying to do something - and three other pit bulls without leashes...three pit bulls around him," an eyewitness said.
"I just can't believe someone would attack an innocent dog. I don't know what's wrong with people - it's so heartbreaking," dog walker Megan Stafford said. The suspect is described as a man wearing an orange shirt, orange hat and blue jeans. Officials said he fled the scene after the altercation.
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