Article: DOGS HAD HISTORY, JUDGE TOLD PROSECUTION: PIT BULLS A THREAT BEFORE ATTACKS.(City Desk/Local)

Byline: John Aguilar, Rocky Mountain News

KIOWA -- Pit bulls terrorized a community in the months before a woman was mauled to death and another was savagely bitten, prosecutors told a judge Thursday.

Prosecutors want to introduce statements from at least seven of Jacqueline McCuen's neighbors who say her dogs had long been a problem in their rural Elbert County neighborhood.

They hope to show that McCuen, 32, was aware that her pit bulls posed a danger months before Jennifer Brooke was killed by three of the dogs as she went to care for her horses Nov. 30.

After killing Brooke, the pit bulls attacked her husband and a neighbor before ...

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