M Live
March 21, 2015
It was about 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 when a pack of up to 12 pit bulls, four of them puppies, mauled 50-year-old Steven Constantine in Detroit.
Constantine’s sister, Katherine Hawley of Shelby Township, said after the attack the dogs “literally” ate pieces of her brother’s muscle and arm tendons.
“It was worse than your worst nightmare,” she said.
Detroit police interrupted the attack and fatally shot one of the dogs, but the rest ran back inside their home on Pennsylvania in Detroit.
They were seized the following day, tested for rabies and subsequently euthanized.
More than five months after the attack, dog owner Derrick Felton, 61, is in custody and charged with three felony charges of harboring a dangerous animal causing serious injury, each count punishable by up to four years in prison, up to $2,000 in fines.