Macon Boy Mauled by Pit Bull in Critical Condition, Neighbor Credited with Saving Child’s Life

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 5-year-old boy remains in critical condition after he was mauled by a pit bull. Now his neighbor is being credited as a hero.

It was a few barks, a yelp and then a plea for help that caught Eddie Deeb’s attention on Friday afternoon. Deeb was in his home on Ousley Avenue in north Macon, when he heard a scuffle next door. He looked across the yard, outside his kitchen window, and what he saw was horrifying.

“I could see arms and legs, flying kind of like a cartwheel thing,” Deeb said.

His next door neighbors’, Charles and Teresa Gay’s dog, was attacking a small child. Deeb immediately sprung into action, ripping open his neighbors’ gate grabbing the 70-pound pit bull and pulling it off the kid. When he lifted the animal up, 5-year-old Anthony Ivey’s face was covered in blood, the skin was ripped off of his legs and his scalp was missing.