Dispute between dog walkers leads to pup’s fatal stabbing in Central Park
June 18, 2023
A dog has died after being stabbed during a dispute between its owner and another dog walker in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday night, according to police and local reports.
A dog was stabbed to death in Central Park Saturday after its owners got into an argument with another dog walker, police said.
The suspect was walking two dogs near 106th Street and East Drive around 8:30 p.m. when he became entangled in a verbal dispute with a couple that was walking their own two pets, according to the NYPD.
The man pulled out a knife and savagely stabbed Eli, a pit bull-German shepherd mix, before fleeing on foot.
The man pulled out a knife and stabbed, Eli, right, a Pitbull-German Shepherd mix.
The owner, 43, told cops her husband rushed the critically injured dog to an area animal clinic, where he was euthanized.
The assailant — whom the couple said was not known to them — is still on the lam.
The location inside Central Park, near E 106th St. and 5th Ave., where the dog was stabbed.
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Man fatally stabbed dog in Central Park after his unleashed pit bulls attacked doomed pup
The monster who fatally stabbed a couple’s dog in Central Park pulled a switchblade after his three unleashed pit bulls attacked the doomed pup, police sources told The Post Sunday.
The vicious attack Saturday night happened as the helpless dog’s owners scrambled to separate the animals near the park’s 106th Street and East Drive entrance, sources said.
The suspect’s trio of pooches charged after Eli, a 14-year-old pit bull-German shepherd mix, around 8:30 p.m., who was being walked by a couple from the area, according to sources and the tragic dog’s owner.
Pit
bull-German shepherd mix Eli (left) was fatally stabbed in Central Park
on Saturday night after the suspect’s own dogs attacked the dog.
The pair also had their miniature pinscher, named Sadie, with them.
Eli and Sadie’s owner Brian Robert told The Post Sunday that all hell broke loose when he confronted the aggressive dogs’ owner, whom he’s seen before in the neighborhood.
“I was trying to correct him and say it’s not OK, your dog just tried to bite my dog,” said Brian, who didn’t want his full name used out of fear of retribution. “And then he just wanted to be a tough guy and he started trying to talk to me like he’s my dad. I know the guy, I’ve spoken to him. But his dogs never tried to bite my dog.”
That’s when the brute — wearing an orange hat, gray shirt and blue jeans — unleashed his three dogs, all pit bull mixes, and allegedly stabbed Eli to death, Brian recalled.
The suspect’s three pit bull mixes attacked Eli, a female pit bull-German shepherd mix.
Eli had to euthanized after being rushed to the veterinarian following the stabbing
The couple walking Eli also had a miniature pinscher, Sadie (left), which was not injured.
He fled the park with his pets.
Eli’s owners rushed him to the vet but he had to be euthanized.
The smaller dog wasn’t hurt.
Cops say they’re canvassing the area and are still investigating the killing. No arrests have been made.
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Owners of dog fatally stabbed in Central Park left terrified by ‘crazy guy’ who sicced vicious pups on them
The owners of the 14-year-old rescue dog who died following a brutal stabbing in Central Park are terrified over the sudden attack — that included the alleged knifeman siccing his pack of vicious pups on them.
Brian Robert, 52, said he doesn’t know what his dog’s alleged murderer is capable of after the Saturday night nightmare, which ended with his poor pup Eli sprawled on the pavement, soaked in his own blood following a canine brawl that also involved the killer’s three dogs.
That’s why Brian said he’s now avoiding the park — and storing a machete near his door.
“He’s a crazy guy,” Brian told The Post Sunday about his alleged attacker, whom he’s familiar with because he often sees him walking what he identified as three mini bullies around the park near the 106th Street and Fifth Avenue entrance.
Mini bullies are a mix of the American pit bull terrier and American Staffordshire terrier.
Brian had even complimented the man’s dogs in the past — they look like mini pit bulls, he said, and he admired them.
But apparently his goodwill didn’t make an impression on the knife-wielding animal — especially after he chastised the man at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday for letting his dogs snap at Brian’s other pup, a tiny 17-year-old miniature pinscher named Sadie.
Eli (left) and Sadie during better times. Eli, the 14-year-old rescue, was stabbed to death in Central Park.
Eli’s
internal wounds, combined with the cost of treating him and a tumor
that the vet found, led Brian to put his dog down after the attack.
“I was trying to correct him and say it’s not OK, your dog just tried to bite my dog,” said Brian, who didn’t want his full name used out of fear of retribution. “And then he just wanted to be a tough guy and he started trying to talk to me like he’s my dad. I know the guy, I’ve spoken to him. But his dogs never tried to bite my dog.”
“We just had words, like, regular, stupid guy words,” Brian said, adding that he and his wife, Melanie, kept trying to walk away.
But things escalated quickly, Melanie told The Post: “It happened so fast, so sudden.”
Before the couple knew it, the man had loosened his own dogs off their leashes — and sicced them on Brian.
“All of a sudden, three dogs are attacking me and [my wife] picked up my little dog … because [the suspect] was trying to punch me,” Brian recalled.
Brian walking the two dogs through the park.
“He was exhausted,” Brian said of his poor pooch. “When he was younger he would have been able to handle this.”
Brian punted one of the aggressive dogs, he said, but the leashes had all tangled together. That’s when the man allegedly whipped out a folding knife and sunk it into the senior pup — who Brian rescued 12 years ago.
He heard Eli cry out.
The Central Park entrance where Eli was stabbed and killed by an unidentified man.
“My dog never stood up again,” Brian said.
The perp — who was wearing an orange hat, gray shirt and blue jeans — took off with his angry animals. Police are still hunting him.
Meanwhile, Brian rushed Eli to a vet on 63rd Street, where doctors found a tumor that likely would have killed the pooch in about five months, he said.
That, combined with the internal injuries and the thousands of dollars it would have cost to try to patch him back up, left Brian with little choice but to put him down.
Brian adopted Eli nearly a dozen years ago, he told The Post.
He pulled out a can of pepper spray and emptied it in the suspect’s face but it did nothing. The attack dogs were latched onto poor Eli, a pit bull-German shepherd mix, and hung off him as elderly pup futilely tried to fight back.
Brian said Eli’s death has been particularly tough for Melanie.
“It’s hard, because the dog was attached to her,” Brian said.
And Melanie said she’s not sure if she wants another pup after this.
The blood stain left on the pavement after an unidentified man stabbed Eli, a 14-year-old rescue.
“I don’t want to see that happen again,” she said. “I’m sad and I’m scared about what happened [Saturday].”
Now, the couple is stuck with a paralyzing fear of what’s to come. And they won’t be walking Sadie in Central Park anytime soon.
“I know stuff happens,” Brian said. “But I thought I was pretty safe around this neighborhood.”
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