The owner of a pit bull stabbed to death in Central Park during a fight between dog walkers followed the pooch’s killer, recording him on his cellphone and cursing him out.
“You better not show your face,” the owner yelled as the stabber headed north on Fifth Ave with his own three dogs, cellphone video obtained by ABC7 New York Eyewitness News shows. “You killed my dog, you piece of s—!”
“Big tough guy,” the distraught owner added. “You killed my dog, man.”
The suspect, clad in shorts and a dark short-sleeve shirt, is still being sought.
The fatal confrontation sparked off near E. 106th St. and East Drive about 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
The 51-year-old owner and his 43-year-old wife were walking Eli, a pit bull German Shepherd mx, and their other dog, Sadie, a miniature pinscher, when the stabber’s three pit bulls snapped at Sadie.
That prompted an argument during which the attacker plunged a switchblade into Eli, killing the dog.
“I’m still shaken,” a witness who recorded cellphone video of the clash’s aftermath told ABC7 Eyewitness News. “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.”
The witness said the owner was crying but was able to follow the attacker out of the pack, recording him from behind.
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