SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Crews are in search of a pitbull that may have been shot after it lunged and bit a San Diego police officer on the leg in the Balboa Park area Monday evening.
The incident happened at 6:15 p.m. at 3000 blocks of Balboa Drive. Two officers with the San Diego Police Balboa Policing team went into the canyon to contact some homeless people in a camp who made some off-color comments to some park visitors, SDPD said.
When the officers approached the tent, that was when the pit bull lunged and bit the officers twice on the leg. The officer then pulled out his gun and shot at the dog, the police department confirmed.
Initially, officers were uncertain if the dog shot because it rolled further into the canyon before running off, and crews were in search of it. In an update, SDPD said the dog is alive, stable and receiving care at a local vet. The officer who was bitten was also taken to the hospital for treatment in an ambulance.
San Diego Humane Society officers were also at the scene to help search for the pit bull.
Officers detained a man and a woman in connection to the attack, according to the police department. Police will charge the couple if they find that the couple commanded the dog to attack.
