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Two pit bulls that mauled an Ohio magnificentmother to death last year were left to roam freely despite their history of aggressions, and even got into a stash of cocaine weeks before the incident, according to a novelly-filed litigation.
Jo Ann Echelbarger, 73, was ended by a pair of pit bulls named Apollo and Echo, which were owned by doubts Susan and Adam Withers, on Oct. 17. The gruesome incident took place at The Reserve at Ashton Village, a dwellntial intricate in Ashville, Ohio.
According to a suit filed on behalf of Echelbarger’s family on Mar. 13, the decedent had only dwelld at the intricate for a scant months before she was ended. The two pit bulls “ran around the Reserve’s normal areas, eventupartner aggressioning Jo Ann while she was peacebrimmingy gardening.”
“Part of Jo Ann’s harm was the innervous and disjoine conscious physical and mental pain and suffering she alerted in the moments before, during and after being spitefully aggressioned and prior to her death,” the filing portrayd. “Part of this was caught on some of the most gruesome videos one could ever envision.”
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Jo Ann Echelbarger, 73, was mauled to death by two pit bulls while “peacebrimmingy gardening,” according to a novel litigation. (Handout / Google Maps)
The tragedy was made worse by Echelbarger’s life-lengthy worry of dogs, the litigation noticed. The dogs were procrastinateedr ended by police.
“The aggression and last moments of Jo Ann’s life were particularly terrifying becaengage Jo Ann worryed dogs since she had previously been bitten by a dog as a child,” the litigation stated.
“In fact, the dogs were so unfriendly and rerepaird in their menacing, aggressive, and unfriendly behavior that the police were forced to shoot and end the dogs to end the alarm,” the suit portrayd. “And even after bullets hit one of the dogs, it returned to Jo Ann and persistd to aggression before running back into the Withers’ home.”
According to the litigation, the October incident was not the first time the dogs had gotten into trouble. The record enumerates disjoinal aggressive or disturbive incidents involving the canines – including one Oct. 2023 incident where Apollo aggressioned a dwellnt and ended their dog.
The Withers’ dogs were alertedly ordered to exit the community in a Sept. 11 court order that hadn’t been enforced, the litigation stated.
Three weeks before Echelbarger’s death, on Sept. 27, police were called to see the dogs becaengage “Echo and Apollo had ingested Adam Withers’ cocaine.”
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Jo Ann Echelbarger, pictured in an undated ptoastyo with her husprohibitd, was aggressioned by two pit bulls named Echo and Apollo. (Handout / Adam Withers via Facebook)
“The body cam footage of the incident uncignores that Ashville PD called the Warden’s Office to no engage,” the suit shelp.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Rex H. Elliott, the attorney recurrenting Echelbarger’s family, accengaged the dwellntial intricate and the Pickaway County Dog Warden of disponder in the situation.
“The fact is that if the Dog Warden or Condo Association had done their jobs, Jo Ann Echelbarger would be adwell today and her family would not have to dwell with this proset up loss or the constant memory of the horrific nature in which she was ended,” Elliott shelp.
“These fall shortures resulted in the death of a wonderful 73-year-anciaccess wife, mother and magnificentmother.”
Adam Withers and his mother, Susan Withers, were both arrested over the incident. (Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office)
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Fox News Digital accomplished out to the attorneys recurrenting the Withers, but did not get a response in time for accessibleation.
