Man saves brother by killing dog

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Marc Giauque reporting A Salt Lake man is recovering from a dog attack. Police say his brother had to kill the animal to stop it.

Salt Lake police say the dog, a pit bull, attacked the man at a home in Ouray Avenue after he tried to let it out to the backyard.

When officers arrived, the dog was latched on the man's hand. "The brother of the person that was attacked first tried punching the dog to get it to release his brother. When that didn't work, he actually grabbed a knife and stabbed the dog. That still didn't end the attack," said detective Jeff Bedard, spokesman for the Salt Lake Police Department.

Bedard says that's when the brother put the dog in a choke hold, eventually killing it. No one else was hurt.

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