Bacliff man mauled to death by his own dogs

BACLIFF, Texas — We're hearing from neighbors who frantically tried to help a man fatally mauled Sunday night in his driveway by his own dogs .

The Galveston County Sheriff's Office said a deputy had to shoot one of them to finally end the attack. Sadly, it was too late for the owner.

This all happened at a home on Louisiana Avenue in unincorporated Bacliff.

"It was just a horrific experience for sure,” said neighbor Jesus Excontitta. “I've never seen anything like that before."

Excontitta tells us he actually broke a machete while trying to save his neighbor, 45-year-old Jose "Eddie" Padron Castillo, from the victim's own pit bull dogs.

“You see there's blood everywhere," Excontitta said.

He and others say the attack started when Castillo tried to keep his dogs from going after pa