Security video showed the dramatic moment then Johnny Mathis saved a small dog whose leash was caught in an elevator door.
Mathis was exiting the elevator when a neighbor was walking in with her dog in tow.
The building's security camera showed the elevator doors close on the dog's leash, with its owner inside.
Mathis quickly ran up to the dog in an effort to save it from getting strangled by its leash as the elevator went up.
He says “I tried to break it at first.I tried to lean down on it with all my weight but it wouldn't snap."
Mathis then says he tried to pull the dog's collar off.He says he could hear the dog’s owner “screaming the whole time.”
He says when the elevator came back down "whe was on the floor with her face covered just bawling her eyes out.I felt really bad."
He adds “"I really feel bad for the girl, she’s gotten a lot of hate.I didn’t realize how much backlash there might be for her. We’re