With six stitches across his cheek, Richard Catrone’s face was still bloodied and bandaged when he spoke to NBC New York . The 67-year-old is in pain, but thankful he was not more seriously hurt when his neighbor fired a flare gun in his face.

The attack was captured on home security video. It shows Catrone walking his dog on a leash outside his apartment when 76-year-old Kathleen Schuman comes out of her apartment, a few doors down. Seconds later she fires the flare gun, hitting him in the face. The flare can be seen bouncing off his cheek as he holds his face in pain, shocked by what just happened.

"My next inclination was to get the gun and I knocked it out of her hand and she went to get it and I wanted to protect my dog. I wanted to protect myself," recalled Catrone. "Kathleen sho

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