Izzie Blundell posted: ‘A gazebo is up and police barricade is right down past the bridge shots were fired police are breaking the door down of the man that was shouting for help.’.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts said the pensioner was ‘an innocent man who was simply walking in the street when he was horrifically attacked by a suspected unregistered XL Bully’.
He said XL Bullies, ‘are like weapons; their physical attributes can make it like owning a loaded firearm with a questionable safety catch’.
The dog had escaped from a nearby address and attacked the man on Bardsley Avenue, in Warrington, at around 6.40pm on Monday.
An 84-year-old pensioner was dragged into a garden and attacked by a dog believed to be an XL Bully.