Police said the owner of the dogs cooperated with the investigation.
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office refused to file charges against the owner of three dogs that attacked and killed a woman last month.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department filed charges against the 54-year-old man Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 15 death of Gladys Anthony. According to a press release from the police department, the charges were refused due to a lack of evidence.
“The death of Gladys Anthony is a complete tragedy and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department detectives worked with the Circuit Attorney’s Office to carefully review the facts of the case,” police spokesman Mitch McCoy said in a press release. “If any new evidence comes to light, SLMPD will review it and notify the Circuit Attorney’s Office.”
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.
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.
Police said the owner of the dogs cooperated with the 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.
A GoFundMe page was created to help the family with funeral expenses.
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