"If he would have sliced my dog’s head off like that, that would have broke my heart. That would have broke me for the rest of my life," victim Rakeem Young said ...

Image via YouTube A New York man is in the hospital after protecting his dog from a machete-wielding attacker. He lost four fingers in the process after being attacked by the man, according to New ...

Rakeem Young was out walking his four-year-old pit bull Chanel when the two were approached by a man with a machete. Young says he raised his hand to try to grab the weapon from the man when it ...

The emotional reunion took place in Rakeem Tayquon Young’s room at Bellevue Hospital, where he is recovering from a 13-hour surgery to reattach the fingers that were sliced off his left hand.

Rakeem Tayquon Young, 34, FaceTimes with his dog Chanel (right) from his hospital bed on Sunday. Four of Young’s fingers were chopped off by a machete-wielding attacker in the Bronx on Friday.

Rakeem Young is in the hospital -- he is having three fingers surgically re-attached after a machete attack. "Trying to protect my dog, man, from these people out here that have no control ...

That would have broke me for the rest of my life," victim Rakeem Young said abc7 NY A Bronx man has been hospitalized for days after four of his fingers were sliced off by a machete-wielding man ...

Rakeem Young was walking his dog on Friday, Jan. 28, when they were attacked by a man wielding a machete The suspect threatened to chop off the dog's head, and Young reacted by protecting her ...

Rakeem Young, 34, was attacked while walking his 4-year-old pit bull Chanel near Southern Blvd. and E. 178th St. in East Tremont on Friday, Jan. 24, around 11:20 a.m. Young told the Daily News the ...