Just over one week after an animal rescue group shocked Bronxites with a report that alleged, organized dogfighting and animal cruelty, including the mauling of stray cats by pitbulls, was taking place at a NYCHA complex in The Bronx, a Bronx pitbull owner is dead following a fatal attack by a pitbull inside his apartment in the Longwood section of The Bronx. Arriving police officers shot and killed the dog during the attack, but the still-unidentified victim could not be saved and died later at St. Barnabas Hospital.