A 47-year-old Nashville woman is hospitalized and recovering from emergency surgery following a Monday night reported attack by five dogs inside her McKennie Avenue home. A neighbor called 911 just before midnight after hearing the victim screaming for help. Arriving East Precinct officers kicked in the front door. They saw the victim bloodied and lying motionless on the kitchen floor with the dogs on and around her. Three officers fired their service pistols at the dogs in defense of the victim and in protection of themselves. The five were fatally wounded. A sixth dog, which was in a bedroom and gated away from the kitchen area, was not injured and was placed into the custody of Metro Animal Control.
Officers immediately rendered emergency medical care to the victim. She was rushed to Skyline Medical Center with serious injuries. She had acquired the dogs from an animal rescue organization.
