WASHINGTON (WUSA) --A 74-year-old man is in the hospital with
life-threatening injuries after a vicious dog attack Tuesday
morning in Northeast Washington.  Sawney Brown Bell was walking
to work on 36th St. NE around 7AM when he was attacked by two
dogs that witnesses describe as a Rotwiler/Pitbull mix.  "They
were biting him like it was their breakfast, lunch , and
dinner," said a witness who asked to remain anonymous.  "The
dogs were mauling his face. One dog had him by his skull and he
was just ripping, ripping," said Leroy, a neighbor and friend
who tried to help by beating the dogs with a metal pole. "I hit
the dog in the back, the stomach, the head. Nothing worked!"
Finally, another neighbor let his own dog loose --a pitbull to
the rescue.  "If it wasn't for his dog, they would have finished
Mr. Bell off," said Leroy.  Bell was rushed to the hospital in
critical condition with bites all over his body and a broken
arm. But the dogs ran back the same way they got out, through a
gap in the gate in the Tow