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Officers responding to a call found eight or nine mixed-breed
pit bulls attacking James Provost of nearby Schenectady at about
6 p.m. Wednesday. One of the officers fired his weapon to stop
the attack, killing one dog and dispersing the others, Albany
Police Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference.
Provost was declared dead at the scene. A caretaker helped round
up the surviving dogs, which were taken to an area shelter.
Their fate will be determined by a judge, Hawkins said.
Hawkins said investigators were still trying Thursday to piece
together key details. They didn't know why Provost was in the
yard or how he got there, miles from his home. And they didn't
know why the dogs' owner, who lives elsewhere, kept 24
mixed-breed pit bulls at the house in a modest section of
Albany. Fifteen of the dogs were puppies.
“There’s so many unanswered questions with this that that we’re
trying to sift our way through,” Hawkins said.
Police are working with prosecutors and criminal charges are
possible, the chief said.
“We’re going to do everything we can to bring justice for this
person that was just viciously attacked,” he said.
Hawkins said police had received no previous complaints
regarding the dogs, but he said police had confiscated several
dogs there in May after search “due to drug activity.”
"These were not dogs that were kept in what we would
traditionally associate as a family atmosphere,” the chief said.
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