Albany Man Pleads Guilty in Dog-Mauling Death

Albany County District Attorney Lee C. Kindlon announced today that a 45-year-old Albany man whose pit bull terriers attacked and killed a man in October 2024 has admitted his guilt.

Omar Daniels pleaded guilty in front of the Honorable Roger McDonough Wednesday to Criminally Negligent Homicide.

Albany Police were called on Oct. 9. 2024, to a rear yard at 594 Central Ave. for a report of dogs attacking a man. Police responded and found 59-year-old James Provost severely injured from bite wounds and internal injuries. In an attempt to stop the attack, one of the responding officers discharged his weapon, killing one of the dogs.

Provost succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police interviewed Daniels after he arrived not long after the attack. He admitted to owning the dogs and keeping them at the property.

McDonough remanded Daniels to the custody of the Albany County Correctional Facility until he is sentenced on Jan. 9, when he will receive a two-to-four-year state prison sentence to run consecutively to the nine years he is serving on a Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree charge. He was sentenced previously on Oct. 18, 2024.

Assistant District Attorney Stephen Lydon of the Major Crimes Bureau is prosecuting the case.