‘The dogs are out’: Friend of man mauled to death by three dogs in Oakland recounts scene of horror

OAKLAND — Robert Holguin suddenly stopped talking Sunday afternoon and urged his friend to quiet down. Sitting in the driveway of an East Oakland house, Holguin took in the silence and uttered four words: “The dogs are out.”

Within minutes, Holguin lay dead beneath a nearby car after being mauled by three 100-pound dogs that had escaped from behind a recently patched fence. The killing left two of his close friends in stunned grief this week — one of them facing a felony charge as the dogs’ owner...