A Texas man had a large part of his nose missing after he fell under his neighbor’s car while being viciously attacked by a pair of pit bulls.
Marcus Kizaza is now unwilling to leave his house without a mask due to the damage. He watched the dogs on a Ring camera before they jumped and bit him outside his Fort Worth home.
Originally, Kizaza’s children had noticed the dogs in the video and thought they were cute.
He then approached them from the driveway, and his wife Leslie initially said that they were “friends” with Marcus and jumped on him.
Soon, however, they began attacking him, with Marcus calling for his wife and trying to run away from them.
Marcus Kizaza appeared on a Ring camera being attacked by the dogs a few weeks ago at his home in Fort Worth.
The dogs eventually bit into his hands, face and legs, ripping off part of his nose before he could jump on top of a white van belonging to a neighbor, according to NBCDFW.
“He was screaming really loud and the dogs were really vicious. We realized there was part of her nose under our car,’ said Bianca Mireles, a neighbor who called 911.
The EMTs and firefighters who came to help Kizaza had to fend off the dogs themselves, Mireles said.
The dogs were just trying to attack whoever was around. So if you were on the ground, they were going to attack you.
One of the dogs died after being struck by a patrol car, Fort Worth authorities confirmed.
“I just saw that afterwards they took the dog away in a big red bag and then they sprayed the ground with water,” Mireles said.
Local animal control officials were able to remove the second dog from the scene.
Kizaza spent over a week in the hospital and underwent multiple surgeries to successfully reattach his nose before he was able to return home.
Originally, Kizaza’s children had noticed the dogs in the Ring chamber and thought they were cute, when their father approached them and initially thought they were friendly.
Soon, however, they began attacking him, with Marcus calling for his wife and trying to run away from them, eventually running for cover on top of a neighbor’s truck.
The EMTs and firefighters who came to help Kizaza had to fend off the dogs themselves.
Kizaza spent over a week in the hospital and underwent multiple surgeries to successfully reattach his nose before he was able to return home.
“I feel better now, but my knee and finger hurt too,” Kizaza said.
Detectives in Fort Worth said the owners, who were not identified, received two citations for unrestrained dogs.
His wife Leslie doesn’t think they have done enough and the family desperately needs to help make ends meet.
We still have to pay the mortgage. We still have children to feed. So that’s why I need to know where the owner of the dog is,” she said.
Marcus is left in pain, has trouble speaking, and is embarrassed to leave the house without a mask.
Marcus is left in pain, has trouble speaking, and is embarrassed to leave the house without a mask.
Wife Leslie doesn’t think the police have done enough to go after the dog owners and the family desperately needs to help make ends meet.
The family has set up a GoFundMe in hopes of raising $30,000 for financial and medical assistance.
I can’t talk much. I don’t want people to just see this, you know?
The family’s attorney, Cole McNeal, said the family is not working and has expenses to pay. He plans to advocate for the police to press charges and file a civil lawsuit.
“We want to collect all the information and make sure the right people are included,” McNeal said. ‘The person who owns the house, the person who rents the house, the people who live there, the owners of the dogs.’
The family has set up a GoFundMe hoping to raise $30,000 for medical and financial assistance, as Kizaza will need one more plastic surgery to fully fix his nose.