An 81-year-old Alabama man remains in critical condition after he was mauled by a pack of dogs in his own driveway when he went to check the mail.

Jamie Boyd lost 50 percent of his body’s muscle tissue in the attack, and his scalp was “viciously and violently torn from his skull,” according to a lawsuit filed against the dogs’ owners.

The attack happened Wednesday, Sept. 24, according to a lawsuit against the dogs’ owners that was filed by Tuscaloosa attorneys Paul Patterson and North Patterson.

“It is the most horrific mauling of a human being that I’ve witnessed as an attorney,” said Paul Patterson.

The suit names as defendants the Boyd’s neighbors, William and Lacey Mitchell.

Boyd and his wife, Martha, were sitting on the front porch of their home on Ingate Road in Centreville when

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