ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A 62-year-old woman is dead and a 73-year-old man was injured after being attacked by multiple dogs Wednesday night in north St. Louis.
According to St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, at around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night, officers were dispatched 5900 block of Theodore Avenue at Walnut Creek West with reports of a woman and man being attacked by multiple dogs in their backyard.
When officers arrived, they located the severely injured woman and the injured man surrounded by three dogs that were barking at them in their rear yard.
Officers would deploy pepper spray on the dogs, causing them to run off.
Officers entered the yard and located the woman who was barely conscious and heavily bleeding. Officers were able to pull the woman inside her home where they rendered aid to the woman and applied tourniquets until the arrival of EMS. The woman would die however, while in surgery.
The man sustained several bites to his arms and legs but elected to seek treatment at a later time.
During a canvass of the neighborhood, officers located the dogs entering a yard at a nearby neighboring home where it was revealed to be where the dogs reside.
The dogs were seized by the City’s Animal Control Division. The owner of the dogs, a 54-year-old male, is cooperating with police.
The department says it was initially called as shots fired, but it was later updated to a Call for Police Help as officers were in route.
It was later determined that the man had previously fired shots in an attempt to distract the dogs, and when officers arrived, the man was fending off the dogs with a broom.
An investigation is still ongoing.