The owner of two dogs with a history of aggression was charged on Friday after the pit bulls killed her neighbor’s Chihuahua and border collie last week, according to court records.
Holly Hill police said the dogs had an extensive history of aggressive behavior before the Nov. 30 attack and they had visited the home of Christina Speicher, 26, because of the dogs on at least two other occasions.
Speicher’s next door neighbor came home on Nov. 30 to find that the pair of pit bulls had jumped the fence and mauled both his dogs to death, the Holly Hill Police Department said.
Previously to the attack, the dogs were “declared extremely dangerous from previous dangerous attacks [and Speicher] allowed her dogs to run at large,” according to the charge affidavit.
A woman was injured in June after one of Speicher’s pit bulls charged her and she fell, injuring herself, Holly Hill police said. She was treated at the hospital for her injuries.
In a separate incident in September, police responded to an animal complaint after one of Speicher’s pit bulls jumped over a fence into a neighboring yard and bit a man several times, according to Holly Hill police records. He was taken to the hospital and treated for the dog bites.
Because of the two previous attacks, Speicher was issued a notice that the two dogs would be classified as dangerous and she would notify Animal Control if the pit bulls were loose or unconfined, bites a person, she gave the dogs to someone else or they were moved to a new home.
A week before the fatal dog attack, Speicher was notified she was in violation of not registering the animals as “dangerous dogs” ordered to pay a license fee for each dog, according to court records.
After the Nov. 30 attack, Speicher released custody of the dogs to the city and agreed for them to be euthanized.
Speicher is charged with an attack by a known dangerous dog.