Posted on 02/06/2025 5:26:07 AM PST by Red Badger
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.
I knew it was a pit before I read it.
They have a reputation for being unpredictable for a reason.
If Cesar Millan can’t train it out of his own dog I don’t ots possible.
Headline gives you a picture of a dog dragging a man into the hospital...
Pit bulls were bred to attack and not quit. From Roman times...............
I thought the dog left him at the hospital too
DOGE leaves democrats in ICU after exposing their corruption.
“the neighbor’s dog, a pit bull named Gunner”
Humble Gunner?....................
Part of the reason I’m armed all the time is not just to protect against potential attacks from humans......
Check Gunner’s home for meth lab...
If that had been my dad's dog,it would already have been killed.
I hate these mutts that run around the neighborhood yapping and crapping all over the place. I hate their dogs, too.
Read the headline and thought the dog was being a good Good Samaritan, dropping an injured man off for needed care.
“””Dog leaves man in ICU after violent attack in Panama City Beach”””
What a nice doggie!!! He takes a man to the hospital ICU.
Incident involves a Pit Bull.
What a surprise.
The other part is the Pit Owners.
90% are total crack heads.
The other 10% are too dangerous to call names.
(The doosh 90% think they are the 10%.)
The 10% use & manage their dogs like weapons.
On my property?
2 to the head.
Note to self: avoid that neighborhood when taking a walk.
Some years ago I was walking between parked cars in a parking lot, and in a car as I passed, I saw a lone Golden Retriever in a locked car.
I love Goldens. They are the sweetest, most loving dogs around, the world is their friend!
The dog was looking balefully at me as I passed, and I paused for a second, making eye contact, and muttered “What a good dog!”
That Golden Retriever lunged at me, impacting the closed window, teeth bared, snarling!
I was so startled...I had never seen a Golden Retriever do THAT before!
I thought the dog was giving up on the guy and their doggie/human relationship after the man attacked him... violently on the beach!
Funny.
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