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A woman is recovering after police say she was attacked by six pit bulls while walking her daughter's dog Wednesday night in Taunton, Massachusetts.
An officer on routine patrol was in the area of 187 Broadway at 8:45 p.m. when he saw a woman running in the middle of the road. The officer then witnessed six pit bulls following and attacking 51-year-old Rochelle Silva.
"At least three of them started charging at me down the driveway," Silva said.
She ended up in her neighbor's yard, with her body over her daughter's dog, Ace, trying to protect him.
The officer who noticed Silva pulled over his cruiser and ran to assist her. When he approached, some of the dogs turned toward him as if they were going to attack the officer.
Police said because the dogs were on top of the woman, the officer was unable to discharge his firearm safely at any of the dogs, so instead, he went back to his cruiser and activated the sirens and air horn to try to distract the animals.
The distraction allowed the woman enough time to get to her feet and allow the officer and a good Samaritan to get the woman into the officer's cruiser.
"I thought I was going to die," Silva said. "The chunks that were coming out of my body, I could feel them."
"She was in a ball, and a guy pulled over, and he was wearing a neon shirt and was helping her," neighbor Stefanie Murphy recalled.
At that time, the owner of the dogs came out of his house to try and get the dogs under control.
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/loca...3kTSuyC9XPcu9LQ1d6sEdF2tzf2l4Xot_uN2YsF8xPy50
A woman is recovering after police say she was attacked by six pit bulls while walking her daughter's dog Wednesday night in Taunton, Massachusetts.
An officer on routine patrol was in the area of 187 Broadway at 8:45 p.m. when he saw a woman running in the middle of the road. The officer then witnessed six pit bulls following and attacking 51-year-old Rochelle Silva.
"At least three of them started charging at me down the driveway," Silva said.
She ended up in her neighbor's yard, with her body over her daughter's dog, Ace, trying to protect him.
The officer who noticed Silva pulled over his cruiser and ran to assist her. When he approached, some of the dogs turned toward him as if they were going to attack the officer.
Police said because the dogs were on top of the woman, the officer was unable to discharge his firearm safely at any of the dogs, so instead, he went back to his cruiser and activated the sirens and air horn to try to distract the animals.
The distraction allowed the woman enough time to get to her feet and allow the officer and a good Samaritan to get the woman into the officer's cruiser.
"I thought I was going to die," Silva said. "The chunks that were coming out of my body, I could feel them."
"She was in a ball, and a guy pulled over, and he was wearing a neon shirt and was helping her," neighbor Stefanie Murphy recalled.
At that time, the owner of the dogs came out of his house to try and get the dogs under control.
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