A Texas man is behind bars in connection with a last month mauling incident involving his three dogs, police said.
Marshall Garrett, 38, was on Tuesday charged with three counts of criminal negligent failure to secure his dogs before they attacked his 65-year-old neighbor, Harriette Phillips, on March 23.
Phillips was reportedly walking in her backyard when it “appeared that the defendant’s dogs had broken through her fence.”
While Phillips was “scanning her backyard looking for something” and hitting her fence with a hammer, the three Staffordshire mixes “returned through the broken fence and attacked her.”
The woman fell to the ground, screamed, and fought off the dogs with the hammer as they began “mauling her head, neck area, arms/elbows, and other parts of her body until the complainant was unable to move anymore or screamed for help.”
Garrett “realized what occurred afterward and called 911.” Phillips succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack.
In 2024, Garrett and a female accomplice were charged with murder in connection with a fatal assault outside a Family Dollar Store.
