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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police are sharing more about a deadly dog attack in
the Walnut Park West neighborhood of north St. Louis. A 62-year-old woman
died and her 73-year-old husband was injured while they were trying to
save their dogs Wednesday night around 11:45.

The woman was identified by her family as Gladys Anthony. She was killed
just days away from her birthday.

The family said Anthony came home from work and let her family's dogs out
into the backyard of their home in the 5900 block of Theodore Ave. Her
brother, John Jenkins, said she let one dog in the house, and when she
turned around, three dogs were attacking their other dog. He said Anthony
was deaf and didn't hear them coming under the fence.

"It was three pit bulls, vicious pits. They came up under there, attacked
her, she was screaming for her husband who went outside to help her, they
had started biting on him," Jenkins said.

Her daughter, Keshia Anthony, and 9-year-old grandson were there, too, and jumped in to help.

"It wasn't nothing that could stop them dogs. They had already bit into my
mom they took a chunk of her arm, her legs were ate up. It was nothing
that could be done to stop those damn dogs from touching her. It's a
problem. Why would you let some vicious dogs like that loose?" Anthony
said.

St. Louis police said Anthony's husband fired shots into the air to scare
the dogs off, which was picked up by ShotSpotter technology, dispatching
police toward their house, but his gun jammed and he started fighting them
off with a broom.

"Two different police officers deployed pepper spray as a third police
officer sprang into action and rescued the woman, bringing her inside her
home for safety," St. Louis police spokesperson Mitch McCoy said.

Police said they had to use multiple tourniquets, and she was rushed to
the hospital for emergency surgery but didn't make it. Her husband was
also treated for multiple bite wounds and is expected to be OK physically,
but Keshia said her dad is devastated.

"Everybody that knew her loved her. She had so many friends. It's just
crazy that this happened to her like this. She didn't deserve it at all,
not one bit of it. And now she got grandkids that don't have their grandmother," Anthony said.

Jenkins said he lost his only remaining sibling and is hurting.

"I couldn't even go to work today because it just hurt so much," Jenkins
said.

McCoy said officers saw the dogs run back to a nearby yard.

"The three dogs were seized by the city's Animal Control division," McCoy
said.

The owner of the dogs, a 54-year-old man, was cooperating with an ongoing investigation.

Environmental Health Bureau Chief Justen Hauser said they had been called
to the house where the dogs involved in the attack lived two times before
this incident.

"There were three dogs that were impounded from the address last night,
and they were taken to the city's animal shelter. They'll be impounded
there and held until further notice," Hauser said.

Hauser said city law allows for humane euthanasia of dogs involved in
severe attacks.

It's unclear if the owner of these dogs will face charges, but McCoy said police will present their case to the St. Louis City circuit attorney once
the investigation is complete.

This is a breaking news story. 5 On Your Side will update it as more information becomes available.

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