A Pomona neighborhood is on edge after a resident’s pit bull, which has reportedly caused troubles before, bit a man out for a walk with his wife and their three dogs Saturday morning.
During the scary ordeal, Bryan Garcia and his wife Shanecia Hernandez are seen on home surveillance video walking their dogs in a neighborhood near Palomares Street and Roosevelt Avenue when the black pit bull comes charging at them from across the street, focusing on Hernandez who was holding two of the couple’s small dogs.
“The dog just didn’t want to stop and just kept going and going,” Garcia said of the pit bull, which eventually turned its focus to him while he was carrying their other dog.
Once the dog started going for her husband, Hernandez said she started screaming for the owner to come and get the pit bull.
“What do I do, what I do? Then I was like, ‘Well, I’m going to scream at the people to come get their dog.’”
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Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Home surveillance cameras captured a pit bull in Pomona attacking a couple walking their dogs in the neighborhood on Sept. 21, 2024. (Susana Zambrano) -
Bite marks on the hand of Bryan Garcia after he had to fight off a pit bull that attacked he and his wife on Sept. 21, 2024. (KTLA)
In footage of the incident, Hernandez can be heard doing just that, begging the owner to come help as her husband continued fighting the animal back.
“I felt and I saw it, but I guess I just had my adrenaline rush, so I was just pushing and pushing [the dog] away,” Garcia said of the dog coming after him.
At one point, the video shows a gardener with what appears to be a leaf blower step in and attempt to get the dog off Garcia. Moments later, the owner is seen coming over and calling the dog back.
Neighbors on the street said they aren’t surprised by the attack, adding that the dog and its owner have been a nuisance for months.
“Every time I walk down the street, it’s scary, very scary,” neighbor Borg Zambrano said.
Tents line the inside of the fence, which Garcia said the dog can easily push open and get out, but calls to police and animal control have gotten the neighborhood nowhere.
“They said they couldn’t do anything,” Garcia told KTLA’s Angeli Kakade.
While he sustained several bites to the hand, Garcia says he’ll be okay but is worried that the next time it could be worse, and children could be in danger.
Others in the neighborhood agree.
“This neighborhood is a lot of families. They walk in the afternoons, walk their little dogs, walk with their children,” Zambrano said. “Next time, it might not just be a little bite and might be a child fighting for their life.”
KTLA has reached out to the Humane Society and the Pomona Police Department about the incident and has yet to hear back.
