On May 16, Tya Lucas, 41, was at home in Lewisville, Texas she was introducing her new puppy, Roo, to her friend Peter, 33 when her Pitbull, Hercules attacked her.
“The puppy went to jump on the couch so I went to pick the puppy up — and my friend told him to get down,” Tyra said.
That is when the Pitbull jumped at Peter and started biting him on the neck.
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“The pit bull jumped on my friend’s neck and he started bleeding. I was like ‘What the f–k?!’ He was latched onto the back of his neck,” she said.
Tyra attempted to tried to take the Pit bull off her friend and shoved him into the bathroom for safety.
That is when the Pitbull turned on Tyra.
“He must have smelled [Peter’s] blood all over me and started attacking me. I don’t remember a lot of it. I remember looking down and my flesh being torn off my arm,” she said.
“I don’t remember the feeling of it, I remember screaming, ‘Hercules, it’s me.’ “
The Pitbull tore off 2/3 of Tyra’s arm, ate her bicep and bite her leg and foot.
“Help me, I’m dying” when her daughter, Tana and her husband, Harley rushed into the living room.
“[Tana] saw the dog was trying to kill me. She reached out her hand to me and I tried to grab it but I missed her by inches,” Tya said.
“It grabbed onto my leg and dragged me further away. Her husband walked in and he beat the dog off of me. I don’t remember that part. I don’t know if I was passing out.”
“Officer Potter is very proud of the fact that he was able to save the woman’s life — but if you ask him it was all just in the line of duty to serve and protect the residents of Lewisville. This was a pretty traumatic situation for this family [but his] actions kept it from being a deadly situation and provided a little comfort for the family” Lewisville Police Department Public Information told media.
Tya explained that: “I don’t know how many times he bit me. I think it went on for about five minutes. I thought I was going to die. I fought somehow to stay alive. A good two-thirds of my arm was torn off. He ate my entire bicep.
“The police said if I’d passed out in the house, he would have eaten me from my insides.
“They said they’d seen stabbings, gunshot wounds and they’ve never seen what they saw that day.
“They put a tourniquet on my arm and the doctor said if he hadn’t been there to do that at that exact moment, then I wouldn’t have made it until the ambulance got there.”
Tya taken to the hospital, where she stayed for 19 days out of which 2 days she was on a ventilator. She had hundreds of stitches across her foot, leg and arm and 5 operations to cut away the dead skin.
Tya says the Pitbull had never shown any signs of aggression before and even slept in bed with her the night before the deadly attack.
The Pitbull was led away on a tether pole by the Animal Control Officer Amanda Navarro.
Tana and Tyra surrender the Pitbull to the police at the scene. This incident left Tyra terrified of dogs.
“I never had a problem with dogs, but now I’m terrified of them. I can’t go near dogs. If there’s one off a leash, I panic [like] I’m about to have an anxiety attack.”
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