Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons revealed Monday the arrest of a Pensacola dog owner whose dogs killed a man in February.
Simmons says deputies detained 35-year-old Kathleen Taylor for irresponsible murder after her 3 dogs killed a 63-year-old man Feb. 24 in the 400 block of Norris Avenue.
“A 63-year-old male was discovered with injuries to his head and upper body. He was noticable departed due to these injuries,” Simmons said throughout journalism conference. “He resided in a trailer on the exact same property, and it appears 3 dogs assaulted him and eventually took his life.”
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Assistant State Attorney Erin Ambrose participated in journalism conference and explained the charge of culpable neglect, explaining that an individual’s neglect or neglect that results in a death can be thought about criminal.
Taylor confronts 15 years in jail for her second-degree felony charge, according to Ambrose.
How did Kathleen Taylor’s declared neglect trigger the occurrence?
During journalism conference, Simmons explained that Escambia County Animal Control has actually had several confrontations with her and different animals she’s owned in the past, and the 3 dogs that killed the man were not protected in their kennels or lawn.
“Taylor stopped working to effectively secure her home or her kennels or any other enclosures to keep her dogs from strolling totally free,” Simmons said. “She stopped working to do so although … she’s had a long history of enabling her dogs to stroll totally free with animal control.”
Escambia Animal Services Manager John Robinson said Taylor has actually been mentioned several times for enabling her animals to stroll totally free and chase individuals throughout her community, and said she would change animals that were drawn from her.
“We have a great deal of strolling calls, we call them nuisance calls, where the animals might have been going after individuals and things like that,” Robinson said. “She does not have the correct housing and undoubtedly does not have the correct take care of them.”
Robinson likewise said among the 3 dogs has actually been euthanized after Taylor gave up ownership. The other 2 dogs are “on hold” for a judge to identify if they can be launched back to Taylor.
She is kept in Escambia County Jail without bond and waits for arraignment on May 12.
“Kathleen Taylor picked to have a family pet, she handled that obligation and she stopped working because obligation, and now a man is dead. What a disaster,” Simmons said. “It might’ve been prevented if she locked the kennels, boarded up the holes, had she had them on a leash, had she listened to animal control, had she appreciated the kids in the community or the visitors in her lawn.”
