Daughter of woman mauled to death by her eight-year-old pit bull Amigo while suffering a seizure will NOT have the animal put down because ‘it was just trying to help my mom’

A Massachusetts woman has died after she was mauled to death by her dog while suffering a seizure – but the family won’t put the canine down. Melissa Astacio, 44, was suffering a seizure in her Somerset home on Friday when her eight-year-old pit bull named Amigo attacked her.

Police were called to the home around 5.20pm by Melissa’s daughter Heaven. Responding officers were forced to taser the dog before paramedics could assist Astacio, who had a history of seizures.

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