New York’s most notorious killer dog has struck again, a year after his owner vowed to put him down.
Syko, the golden-blond shepherd, mauled a series of small dogs and left one for dead last summer outside the French bookstore La Librairie des Enfants on the Upper East Side.
At the time, owner Lynda Hudson, 58, caved to local pressure and said she would euthanize the dog and move her bookstore across town to a new site in the West Village.
But the Beast of the Upper East Side was filmed in another attack on Friday morning, leaving an elderly walker lying on the pavement and clutching his terrified spaniel as Syko’s handler dragged him away.
“As the woman was walking down the block, the dogs jumped out of the car and attacked her dog and she fell to the ground,” a horrified neighbour told Dailymail.com. “The husband proceeded to hit her dogs and then drove off.”
An elderly woman lies on the sidewalk desperately clutching her spaniel as Syko and his brother are dragged away from their targets.
‘Syko’ – second from left and pictured with his parents and siblings – attacked several smaller puppies outside the quaint French bookstore La Librairie des Enfants on the Upper East Side.
Syko was living with at least two of his German shepherd siblings when he began attacking smaller animals in May last year.
Psychologist Julia Schafer was leaving her building when Syko and his two brothers grabbed her small collie mix, Tarsilla, on May 3.
“The white guy bit her and grabbed her,” Schafer said. The New York Times.
Hudson agreed to pay the $850 vet bill, but just four days later, local technical engineer Laurie Davis found herself “screaming at the top of her lungs” as the dogs lunged at her tiny white Cavachon named Chloe.
“My friend and I were walking back from Central Park with our dogs… and the next thing I knew, this white dog had Chloe in his mouth,” she said.
While Syko was busy with Chloe, his two brothers turned their attention to the little Maltipoo belonging to Davis’ friend, biting the little Muppet on the face.
Chloe survived, but required emergency surgery and was in critical care for nearly three days, Davis said.
She said a neighbor in her building “took a wet towel and put pressure on his wound, which is probably what saved his life.”
But it wasn’t until August that things came to a head, when Syko was disturbed by a seven-pound toy poodle named Baby who walked past his door.
Personal trainer Akiba Tripp with her seven-pound toy poodle Baby, who was killed by Syko near the bookstore when the owner suddenly opened the door.
Psychologist Julia Schafer, another Upper East Side resident, said she was leaving her building with her collie mix Tarsila on May 3 of last year when disaster struck.
Chloe and her owner Laurie Davis after Syko’s brutal attack on the little Cavachon in early May of last year. Davis took Hudson to small claims court over the $6,000 veterinary bill that resulted from the life-saving measures on Chloe.
Owner Akiba Tripp said the German shepherd grabbed his dog “inside its mouth,” sank its teeth into her and broke her spine after Hudson opened the store door and walked out with Syko.
The personal trainer said people from nearby bars ran and tried to separate the dogs on the blood-spattered sidewalk, but Baby could not move because she was paralyzed by the attack.
The little poodle had to be put down, but Hudson claimed that “Syko didn’t kill anyone,” and told police that New York Post that it was Tripp who decided to “put that dog to sleep.”
Tripp said a vet insisted her dog couldn’t be saved and lashed out at Hudson’s account.
“How dare you keep saying that!” he spat.
“That shows how evil this woman is. The dog’s spine was broken and the doctors said we couldn’t operate on him.”
Davis said Hudson had blamed her “drunk” husband for the attack, and then reneged on a promise to pay her $6,000 veterinary bills.
“She’s a pathological liar,” Davis said. “I have to tell you that all the dog parents on the Upper East Side don’t want her here at all.”
“This woman has made me so nervous I can’t even begin to say it.”
Syko (center), the German shepherd, is known to have attacked at least five dogs.
His caretaker pushed him back into the car as his latest victim lay on the ground.
One of Syko’s brothers also received a harsh reprimand as bystanders watched helplessly.
Finally, one of them came to the woman’s aid and pulled the spaniel out of danger.
In an email to neighbors, Hudson apologized for Syko’s behavior and said he had tried everything to control his wild behavior.
“It’s so unfortunate that this poor little dog was put down. I’m so sick!” she wrote.
‘I’ve been here for almost nine years and my adult dogs have never attacked me, but this white German Shepherd is something special.
‘I called my vet yesterday to ask him to put the dog down and my vet refused to do it.’
But she said the vet had referred her to a clinic in Brewster and that she would keep her other dogs at home in the future.
“My dogs will no longer be in the store, but the hate, insults and name calling has to stop,” she wrote.
In April of this year, the bookstore closed its doors ahead of its planned move to the West Village.
“I’m glad (Hudson) is gone,” Tripp said at the time. “I don’t think he learned his lesson. He didn’t show any remorse.”
Lynda Hudson, 58, opened La Librairie des Enfants in 2016. She owns the ferocious German shepherd dog that has been attacking other animals.
But just when residents thought it was safe to return to the neighborhood, one filmed Syko and his cronies attacking the elderly woman and her spaniel.
“All the dogs were in the car with her husband,” the witness told Dailymail.com.
“And as the woman walked down the block, the dogs jumped out of the car and attacked her dog, who fell to the ground. The husband proceeded to hit her dogs and then drove away.”
The source said a “sister cafe” near the bookstore where Hudson offers conversation classes for children and adults remains open for the time being.
“I don’t think he learned his lesson,” Tripp said. “He didn’t show any remorse.”
Dailymail.com has contacted Ms Hudson for comment.
