Socorro man attacked by a pack of dogs

It was a the horrifying attack neighbors say they were fearing.

IthappenedFridayafternoon on the 200 block of Flor Bonita.

When ABC-7 crewsgot there, it was apparent something tragic had happened.

The amount blood on the streettold the story of how a man in his 40s was mauled byfive pit bulls.

The spokesperson for the City of Socorro tells ABC-7when Socorro policeofficers arrived on the scene, they found a man who had been attacked by a pack of dogs that escaped from their home. The man’s face is disfigured with lacerations, said spokesman Dave Garcia.

The man was transported in serious condition to a local hospital.

The five dogs were located and taken into custody by animal services.

Socorro officials say the dogs belonged to a Maria Stevenson, who will be cited for failure to control her animals.

Socorro officialsalso tellABC-7 they’ve been working on an animal ordinance.

“We’ve been a farm community for so long and people are used to having dogs in the farm community, so again it’s going to be tough to pass something and to finish something that will work on large lots as well as small lots, people who have dogs, want to raise dogs, so it’s been quite an effort to get this done and it’s a situation like this that everyone’s trying to prevent,” said Garcia.

ABC-7also spoke to a neighbor whosays the dogs are constantly getting out, they often fear for their kids and they think it’s a shame that it had to come to something like this for the dogs to be removed.