The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a dog attack early Tuesday that left a woman dead, according to a spokesperson.
S said his partner, 50-year-old C, was mauled by two dogs that belong to a neighbor on Blue Bonnet Drive near Cocoa.
“She was a great woman. She just loved people, loved dogs more than people, and for her to go out that way, it’s not right,” S said.
S said he had just returned home shortly after 1 a.m. after helping neighbors across the street when he realized C and one of their dogs had disappeared. Then, he heard a faint cry for help.
“I saw the silhouette of the two dogs dragging my wife down the road, off into the grass in front of the truck down there,” S said.
S said he found C lying in a pool of blood with bites all over her body. He said the dogs then came back and tried to drag her away from him.
“I pulled my knife out, you know, just swinging with it one hand and holding the blood with the other, trying to stop her from bleeding,” S said.
Eventually, S was able to call 911. He said C was flown to the hospital but died from her injuries hours later.
“It was brutal. Seeing the same woman I’ve loved for the last 25-30 years just ripped apart by two animals was just … I’ll never get that image out of my mind,” S said.
S said he and others had previously warned the sheriff’s office about the dogs.
“I told them that she had those two pits that get out all the time and run the neighborhood and have been aggressive towards people, and they didn’t do anything about it,” Smith said. “My wife lost her life because of it.”
Before the attack, Smith said C had actually helped free one of the dogs whose collar had gotten stuck in their fence.
While the case remains under investigation, Smith has his own suspicions as to what may have happened.
“They must have been chasing our little dog, and she went to save her little dog to get him,” he said. “And then they switched their attention to her when she tried to get them off our little dog.”
WESH 2 News reached out to the sheriff’s office about previous complaints involving the neighbor’s dogs. A spokesperson said the investigation is active and ongoing and that they will provide an update as more information becomes available.
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Source: Wesh
