The Capital Gazette is reporting that an elderly woman was attacked by a Pit Bull in Pasadena on Wednesday. According to the article:
The 89-year-old woman was in her fenced yard in the 200 block of Arundel Road in Pasadena at 3:25 p.m. when the dog approached and bit her in the upper arm, said Battalion Chief Steve Thompson, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
The woman’s arm was severely mauled and she was taken by ambulance to the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Thompson said.
Pit Bulls have been involved in several attacks over the past year. You can read some of our coverage here.