PORT ARTHUR — Dalia Morales, 65, vividly recalled the harrowing events of August 11 when her neighbor’s pit bull attacked her on her side porch.
“I was just on the phone, smoking me a cigarette, just walking back and forth, you know, until I realized I’d seen that pit bull coming towards me, and I started walking faster,” Morales said.
Despite her efforts, the dog caught up to her, biting her leg. Morales began to panic and called for help.
“I seen people just standing out there ’cause I was hollering help, somebody help. And people, they see people just standing further down the street but nobody came to help everyone for the mail lady,” she said.
A postal worker driving by stopped in front of the home on Fifth Street and used pepper spray to fend off the dog. Morales’s friend, Rico Arguetta, expressed gratitude for the postal worker’s intervention, which he said was a blessing that helped save Morales.
The attack left Morales with severe injuries, requiring 160 stitches to close wounds on her arms and legs. She faces additional surgeries. Arguetta described the scene, saying,
