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Two pit-bulls Last year, who mutilated a grandmother from Ohio to death last year, and even took a cocaine reserve a few weeks before the incident, according to a newly tense trial.
Jo Ann Echelbarger, 73, was killed by a pair of Pit-Bulls appointed Apollo and Echo, who belonged to the suspects Susan and Adam Withers, on October 17. The horrible incident took place at the Ashton Village reserve, a residential complex in Ashville, Ohio.
According to a prosecution filed on behalf of the Echelbarger family on March 13, the deceased had only lived the complex for a few months before being killed. The two pit-bulls “ran in the common areas of the reserve, finally attacking Jo Ann as she jardinated peacefully”.
“Part of the damage of Jo Ann was the extreme and severe conscious physical and mental pain that it felt in the previous moments, during and after being viciously attacked and before his death,” said the file. “Some of this was taken on some of the most horrible videos you can imagine.”
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Jo Ann Echelbarger, 73, was mutilated to death by two pit-bulls while “peaceful gardening”, according to a new trial. (Handout / google maps)
The tragedy was aggravated by the life of Echelbarger Fear of dogs, The trial noted. The dogs were then killed by the police.
“The attack and the last moments of the life of Jo Ann were particularly terrifying because Jo Ann feared dogs since she had been bitten by a child dog,” said the trial.
“In fact, the dogs were so aggressive and persistent in their threatening, violent and aggressive behavior that the police were forced to shoot and kill dogs to end the terror,” said the trial. “And even after balls hit one of the dogs, he returned to Jo Ann and continued to attack before returning to the Withers’ home.”
According to the trial, the October incident was not the first time that dogs were in trouble. The document lists several violent or disruptive incidents involving dogs – including a October 2023 incident where Apollo attacked a resident and killed his dog.
Withers dogs were reportedly sentenced to leaving the community in an order from the court on September 11 which had not been imposed, the trial said.
Three weeks before Echelbarger’s death on September 27, police were called to see the dogs because “Echo and Apollo had ingested the cocaine of Adam Withers”.
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Jo Ann Echelbarger, illustrated in an un dated photo with her husband, was attacked by two pit-bulls appointed Echo and Apollo. (Handout / Adam Withers via Facebook)
“The incident’s body camporel images reveal that Ashville PD called the director’s office in vain, “said the trial.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Rex H. Elliott, the lawyer representing the family of Echelbarger, accused the residential complex and the dog’s County goalkeeper in the situation.
“The fact is that if the dog goalkeeper or the condos association had done his job, Jo Ann Echelbarger would be alive today and his family would not have to live with this deep loss or the constant memory of the horrible nature in which it was killed,” said Elliott.
“These failures led to the death of a wonderful woman, mother and grandmother of 73 years.”
Adam Withers and his mother, Susan Withers, were both arrested for the incident. (Sheriff’s Bureau of Pickaway County)
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Fox News Digital contacted lawyers representing Withers, but did not receive a response in time for the publication.
