DEADLY WOUNDS? WOMAN DIES 3 MONTHS AFTER BEING INJURED IN DOG ATTACK.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - A 65-year-old Lake Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. woman has died three months after she was mauled by pit bulls let loose in her mobile home park. Carla Bailey died Saturday at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital, where she had been hospitalized since returning three weeks earlier for surgery on bite wounds that never healed, failing kidneys and liver and other complications. ``Finally, what happened, everything shut down,'' said her stepdaughter step·daugh·ter n. A spouse's daughter by a previous union. stepdaughter Noun a daughter of one's husband or wife by an earlier relationship Noun 1. , Kathleen Bailey. Los Angeles County coroner's officials are investigating the death, which neighbors said were caused by dogs that had been let out of a car near Bailey's mobile home minutes before the June 8 attack. An autopsy is planned. If the coroner rules the death was caused by the dog bite dog bite Public health The clamping of skin and subjacent soft tissues between the upper and lower mandible of a canine, which may cause infections, acting as a disease vector or even death. See Dog. , the case could be turned over to sheriff's homicide detectives, sheriff's officials said. But dog bites are usually classified as accidents, unless there are extenuating circumstances Facts surrounding the commission of a crime that work to mitigate or lessen it. Extenuating circumstances render a crime less evil or reprehensible. They do not lower the degree of an offense, although they might reduce the punishment imposed. , such as an owner who ordered the dogs to attack. The dogs also bit another woman at the park and a young man who came to their aid. Bailey's ex-husband distracted the dogs by throwing rocks at them and then fought them off with a shovel while the bleeding women climbed into the bed of a pickup truck. One dog was captured at the mobile home park on 145th Street East the day after the attack, the second five days later, and the third was found dead after it was apparently hit by a vehicle, officials said. The dogs' owner has never been found. Animal control officers said the description of the car and its driver, identified as a Latino male in a light blue Honda, is too vague for officers to trace. Bailey spent three weeks in the hospital immediately after the attack, then went to live with her stepdaughter. But her health worsened and she became more and more confused, relatives said. Bailey was a member of the Women of the Moose Moose, river, Canada Moose, river, c.50 mi (80 km) long, formed in central Ont., Canada, by the Mattagami and Missinaibi rivers. It flows NE to its confluence with the Abitibi River and into SW James Bay near Moosonee. in Palmdale, enjoyed bingo and did volunteer work, her stepdaughter said. She had asked to be cremated and her ashes planted with a tree in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los , Brooks said. ``That's what she wanted,'' Brooks said. The family hasn't made arrangements yet for a memorial service. |
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