Cop shoots and kills pit bull during violent mauling as victim was being bitten, dragged by her neck

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Cop shoots and kills pit bull during violent mauling as victim was being bitten, dragged by her neck

“This outcome, while unfortunate, appears to have been unavoidable."

ByJon Haworth
October 21, 2020, 5:35 AM
• 3 min read

A woman is lucky to be alive after a cop shot and killed a pit bull in the middle of a violent mauling that left her with serious injuries to her leg and neck.

The incident occurred on Oct. 20 at approximately 4:30 p.m. in Enfield, Connecticut, when a police officer was responding to a report of a large dog attack nearby, according to the Enfield Police Department.

The officer, who responded on foot to the call, immediately found a woman being attacked by a pit bull and noticed that she had sustained severe lacerations and tissue damage to her foot, which the animal was still clinging onto in the attack.

“The dog’s owners were able to briefly stop the dog from attacking the woman by pouring hot water on it,” the Enfield Police Department said in a statement released on social media. “The dog then lunged toward the woman’s neck area, bit her, and began to pull her back into the front yard of the property from the sidewalk.”

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