A woman is in critical condition after being bitten by a dog in the Tenderloin on Tuesday morning.
The unidentified woman was bitten around 9:20 a.m., according to the San Francisco Fire Department. Fire department paramedics treated the woman’s “serious injuries” on scene and transported her to a local trauma center.
A video posted by the Instagram account @tenderloinactivities1 appears to show the immediate aftermath of the attack, which occurred just outside of the Phoenix Hotel where it borders Larkin Street.
In that video, a woman is lying face down with her legs up in the air. There are visible blood stains on the front of her body. The off-leash dog, likely a pitbull, walks around the woman and up the street with blood on its head, shoulders and front legs.
San Francisco police have not yet released the name or age of the woman, nor have they identified the dog’s owner.
The dog died sometime after the attack. A video posted by KPIX shows the dog restrained by police, laying on the floor unresponsive.
San Francisco Animal Care and Control said the dog was deceased when its staff arrived on scene around 9:30 a.m.
Of the 46 dog attacks in the last 30 days, 11 took place in the Tenderloin, including Tuesday’s attack, according to police department data published on the city’s open data portal. All of San Francisco’s neighborhoods except the Tenderloin, South of Market and Mission reported fewer than five dog bites in the last month.
The data underscores the neighborhood’s continued struggle to address these violent incidents: Mission Local reported in March that the Tenderloin accounted for more than a quarter of dog-bite incidents at the end of last year, and that its rate of attacks was skyrocketing amid a citywide increase.
San Francisco’s dog court, where “vicious and dangerous dog hearings” are held, was revived in the early summer after a year’s hiatus.
