Antoinette Brown was left in a medically induced coma after six dogs mauled the 52-year-old woman in her South Dallas neighborhood in the early morning hours on May 2.
She died Monday evening after being taken off life support at Baylor Medical Center.
Neighbors called police to say a woman was 'screaming for help because she was being attacked,' Fox 4 reported.
The Army veteran was found with more than 100 bites across her body in an empty lot, as the dogs had already fled from the scene, CBS Dallas reported.
Her neighbor, Jackie Humphrey, told Fox 4 that she called 911 when she found Brown severely injured.
'One of her legs looked like a shark had taken a bite out of it,' Humphrey told Fox 4.
Humphrey said that she tried to have Dallas Animal Services capture the same dogs a year ago after she claims one killed her Chihuahua.
She explained to Fox 4 that when she called 911 about Brown's attack, police told her to call 311 about the dogs being loose.
Humphrey claims that she was told by an official that no one would come to the neighborhood for 72 hours.
'I said, 'Evidently, y'all are not communicating or something,' Humphrey told Fox 4.
Other neighbors claim that the aggressive dogs would roam the neighborhood frequently after getting out through holes in fences.
Now, city officials plan to revisit the policies on loose dogs after Brown's tragic death.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings stated that Dallas Animal Services has 'to do a better job picking up stray dogs.'
'The priority has not been high enough, obviously,' Rawlings said. 'Progress is great, but we were in a deep hole and we have a long ways to go.'
He added that when someone is injured by an animal that the city's animal services needs to be contacted as soon as it happens.
According to Fox 4, the director of animal services created a plan to hire nine more employees eight months ago and five of the positions were empty for a year.
Humphrey believes that had Dallas Animal Services listened to the complaints from the neighborhood a year ago, Brown would still be alive.
'It seems like to me they don't care,' she told Fox 4. 'They really don't care.'
The case is still under investigation and no charges have been filed.
Authorities believe that they have identified the owner of the loose dogs who attacked Brown.
The dogs were captured days later following the horrific attack.
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