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Carmelo Anthony, Rick Nash and Chris Kreider, Paul Pierce
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The brute who sicced his dogs on an elderly rescue mutt before fatally stabbing the poor pooch is a known menace in Central Park — and fellow dogwalkers say they keep their own pets far away from him and his pack of rowdy pups.
“The three dogs were always trying to fight with everybody and trying to fight with others dogs,” said Roberto Cervantes Monday as he sat on a bench with his 9-year-old poodle. “His dogs are always leashed but he lets them run up to people and doesn’t stop them.”
Police are still searching for the heartless creep — who allegedly sunk his knife into Eli, a 14-year-old pit bull-German shepherd mix, Saturday night near the 106th Street and Fifth Avenue entrance of the park.
Cervantes knew of the unidentified suspect, who walks three pit bull mixes, and that his friend was once attacked by one of the dogs.
Just before the Saturday killing, the alleged dog murderer sicced his three terrier mutts on Eli and his owner named Brian, around 8:30 p.m. Brian told The Post that he’d just chastised the reckless dogwalker for letting his pups snap at Brian’s other pup, a tiny 17-year-old miniature pinscher named Sadie.
The dogs got into it — as did the owners — and the leashes tangled together. That’s when the man allegedly whipped out a switchblade and knifed Eli in the flank. Brian said he later had to put poor Eli down.
