Police say the victim tried to stop the dogs from fighting and that is when they turned on him.
Two police officers are being recognized for their heroic rescue of a woman and an infant being attacked by a dog in Hackensack.
Jackie Billini's friends and family say the 57-year-old would give a stranger the clothes off her back and the food off her plate.
The puppies were spotted in a car by a Suffolk County police officer overnight while on patrol in Wyandanch. They were in two crates without sufficient air, shelter, food, or water.
The good Samaritan who found brother and sister Aiden and Angel sat with them for hours until help was found.
The mother had just arrived at a home on Voorhees Street and was taking her daughter out of a car seat when a brown-haired pitbull attacked them.