PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man was taken to the hospital after being attacked by a neighbor’s dog Tuesday, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to a life-threatening medical call at 8115 Laird St. about 5 p.m. When they arrived, they found Michael Fabjon Jr., 49, lying on the ground covered in blood. Pamela Dennis, 56, was performing CPR on him. A deputy assessed Fabjon and began providing life-saving measures including CPR.
Emergency medical services arrived and Fabjon was taken to the hospital for his injuries.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Dennis told deputies that Fabjon’s dog got into a fight with the neighbor’s dog, a pit bull named Gunner. Dennis and Fabjon were able to break up the fight, but Gunner ran away.
Shortly after, Gunner returned and began to attack Fabjon, Dennis said. Gunner took Fabjon to the ground and then began biting Fabjon’s neck while violently shaking his head.
A neighbor, Carrie Swisher, 44, went outside and called Gunner back into her house.
The Sheriff’s Office said that when a deputy went with Animal Control to retrieve the dog, Brendan Murphy, 28, Gunner’s owner, barricaded himself inside and wouldn’t allow them to take the dog.
Murphy was placed under arrest on charges of resisting without violence and obstruction. He was taken to the Bay County Jail without incident.
According to a deputy’s report, Murphy claimed that after the fight, Gunner returned home and didn’t go back. Murphy claimed that Fabjon’s own dog attacked him and that the dogs have a history of fighting.
The blood on Gunner was more consistent with the attack than the blood that was on the other dog, and witnesses also said it was Gunner, according to BCSO.
In a phone interview with the News Herald, the BCSO clarified that Murphy and Fabjon live in separate structures on the same property with their dogs. As to why Gunner might have attacked Fabjon, the Sheriff’s Office said the man was in the process of putting his dog up when Gunner returned after the fight.
BCSO said that Fabjon was in the intensive care unit on Wednesday with injuries to his throat and the back of his neck from the attack.
This article originally appeared on The News Herald: Man in critical condition after dog attack in Panama City Beach
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