Officer Hears Screams, Rescues Local Woman From Pit Bull Attack

TEXAS -- A Waco police officer used his Taser to rescue a woman whom a pit bull attacked.

Officer Craig Mrosko was on patrol at around 6 p.m. Tuesday when he heard the woman screaming.

He followed the screams to a house at 2600 North 20th Street where he found the woman on the front porch, pinned against a window with a large pit bull on top of her, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said Wednesday.

Mrosko ran to help the woman and used his Taser to stun the dog, which briefly backed off, but as the Taser cycled through, the dog resumed the attack, Swanton said.

  

He tried to pull the dog off the woman “but was not successful due to the viciousness of the animal,” Swanton said.

Mrosko then used the Taser several more times to subdue the dog, which ran off, Swanton said.

"I don't know how bad it would have been had officer Mrosko not been there. Conceivably he saved that woman's life from the dog attack. It was certainly one of those things that could have turned much worse very quick," Swanton said.

Earlier reports indicated the woman was taken to a hospital, but Swanton said Wednesday paramedics treated the woman at the scene for bites to her hands and chest.

Officers later located the dog, which belongs to the woman’s roommate.

The pit bull has been placed in quarantine, Swanton said.

(KWTX - Jan 22, 2015)