3-Year-Old Mauled To Death By Two Pit Bulls After Falling From Window

A 3-year-old boy who accidentally fell out of a window and landed in the backyard at his family home was savagely mauled to death by two pit bulls.

The shocking incident occurred on Thursday, June 10, at a home in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

According to the police, the toddler somehow managed to fall out of the window and landed in the backyard where he was brutally mauled by the family’s two pet dogs.

Neighbors say that the boy’s mother who noticed the horrifying incident rushed to help the child.

"I saw the mother, she was full of blood in her hands, her shirt," neighbor Maria Rocha told WABC. "And I was like, 'what happened?' so I came here because it was full of police and she told me, 'My baby, my baby, I went to the bathroom and my baby fell out the window.'"

"My heart is broken. I didn't sleep all night," Rocha told the news outlet.

The child was rushed to Trinitas Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead later that evening.

"I went to the uncle and he said the dogs got to his neck and then I pushed the baby out of the [way of] the dogs and still the dogs were [holding] his legs," Rocha described. "They killed the boy right then and there."

"I cannot believe this happened to a little 3-year-old. He's a baby. Could be mine, could be somebody else. He's a baby, and killed by dogs?"

"I just hope that he didn't suffer, you know what I mean?" Rocha said. "I hope he didn't suffer, that it was quick."

Witnesses who were interviewed by the news outlet told reporters that the dogs were quite aggressive and that the yard that the child fell into was full of dog feces, power tools, and debris.

"Whenever I would pass by the dogs would always bark," another neighbor, Angela Perez, told WABC. "You could tell they were aggressive."

Animal control officials responded to the scene and secured the dogs. They were later transported to another location.

This is an ongoing investigation and the authorities are urging anyone with information pertaining to this case to contact Prosecutor's Office Detective Richard Acosta at 908-347-0404 or Detective Michael Tambini at 908-472-4301.