Byrd said he told a Forsyth County animal-control officer that he doesn’t own the dogs and said he helped that officer and another animal-services officer catch the dogs.

He said he doesn’t know Horton.

“I told them that they were never my dogs,” Byrd said. “My dog was not involved in the attack. There are stray dogs here in the neighborhood that run around all of the time.

“I saw the commotion, and I came outside after the fact to help with the situation,” Byrd said. “I didn’t see the actual attack. I saw the lady sitting on the ground. The dogs ran off and came through my backyard.”

Byrd said that the stray dogs often get food from delivery trucks that serve a nearby shopping center and that the animals often search the trash at a nearby abandoned house.

“They terrorize the whole neighborhood basically,” Byrd said. “My heart goes out to the victim, but I don’t think I should be a scapegoat for this situation.”

A 1:21-minute Facebook video initially shows two dogs attacking Horton, and then two more dogs join the attack. The dogs repeatedly bite Horton before another woman fights off one of the dogs while the other dogs run from the scene. That woman then helps the woman who was attacked.