[He figured Desi wouldn't reply right away. GV knew he kind of casually dropped a big reveal on text, and normally he wouldn't do it that way, but given circumstance? That was the most low profile way he could think of to handle it.]

Yeah. You gotta deal with Dog Hallway for it. Which you can either deal with by shooting them with the handgun or by baiting out their lunges and dodging them.

[He'd taken to the latter strategy more lately to save ammo for quicker kills against enemies later.]

Or if you can get the Knife right under their chin and stab straight upward you can put them down in one go. Risky, but good if they knock you over.