PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – Months after two women were brutally attacked by a pack of dogs in North Portland, one of the dog owners has been arrested.
Nearly eight months since the attack, Megan Pereira says she is still recovering, but is grateful someone is being held accountable for what she says was the scariest day of her life.
“Everyone’s lives were changed that day…Mytoka’s, mine, Charles’,” she said.
On July 15, 2024, Megan heard her friend, Mytoka Petry, scream while she was visiting a homeless camp near North Columbia Boulevard.
“I saw Mytoka lying on the ground, seriously injured,” she said. “Words really couldn’t describe what I saw,” she said.
Eight dogs were mauling Mytoka, and when Megan tried to get help from Mytoka’s brother, Charles, she says the dogs turned on her.
“I screamed his name, and they didn’t like that loud noise, so they turned on me,” Megan said, recounting the attack. “And once you have that many dogs, it’s like a pack mentality…one of them jumps, then they are all on you. There was nothing I could do at that point.”
While Megan was not as badly injured as Mytoka, she is still recovering months after the attack.
“I had 50 some odd puncture bite wounds, I had internal bleeding, I had a vein that was severed by my heart,” she explained.
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On Sunday, the Portland Police Bureau announced that they had arrested one of the dog owners, Alexandria Hendon.
Hendon, facing five charges of maintaining a dangerous dog, was released on bail, but a condition that she cannot own any domestic animals.
She pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment hearing on Monday.
PPB also has an arrest warrant out for the other dog owner, Cierra Graham.
As for the dogs, a spokesperson for Multnomah County Animal Services said all eight dogs are in secure protective custody in Troutdale while the case is still pending.
Megan believes the dogs should not be let out any time soon.
“If it were my dog, as sad as it is, I don’t think I could chance that happening to somebody else,” she said. “I don’t like to see anything happen to the dogs, but it is what it is.”
According to police, Mytoka Petry will be going to physical therapy for the next few years.
As a result of the attack, she lost an arm, an ear, toes and vision from one of her eyes, along with lacerations all over her face and body.
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