HIGH POINT, N.C. — A man is recovering after his sister said a dog mauled him.
Rocky Brooks spent several days in the hospital after the attack. His sister, Angela Brow, said he has a challenging road ahead.
"The pain that he's in with his mouth itself is just unbearable. I know that is one of the reasons they kept him at the hospital a little longer to see if they could help maintain some of the pain for him," she said while showing pictures of Brooks.
The pictures showed her brother lying in a hospital bed in an induced coma after she said a pit bull attacked him a week ago.
"He had to have emergency surgeries on his face. It's hard just seeing him lying there like that. I saw photos of pre-surgery, and part of his lip was missing. It looked like something from a horror movie," Brow explained.
Brow said her brother Rocky Brooks was at a friend's house in High Point when the dog bit his arm and leg, then locked onto his face.
A friend was able to save Brooks and called 911.
Brooks didn't feel comfortable going on camera, but Brow said her brother remembered what happened.
She said a woman close to the family had her dog attack Brooks because she was angry.
"The girl who owns the dog just left him after the attack, she left and took the dog," she added.
High Point police said they responded to a vicious animal call last Sunday, but the dog and owner were gone when they got there.
Police said they're having a hard time identifying the dog's owner.
"I feel like they should be doing more because of the way he was left after the dog attacked him. From my understanding, this is not the first time the dog has attacked someone," Brow said. "To save other people from being attacked, it needs to be put down."
Brooks is out of the hospital after multiple surgeries and on the long road to recovery.
"This is going to be years if they have to do more surgery to his face to fix things to where he's okay with it," Brow said.
High Point police said animal control officers are looking for clues that could lead them to the dog attacking Brooks.