Wed, December 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Updated Thu, December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM

BREMERTON, Wash. — At least six people are recovering from injuries after attempting to break up a vicious dog attack in Kitsap County.

Multiple neighbors told KOMO News the injured dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Jasper, passed away Wednesday. It’s unclear exactly how the dog died and that’s among the unanswered questions KOMO News has pointed to county officials. Now some neighbors are wondering whether the Pit bulls’ owner will be held accountable.

A man who lives near 2nd Avenue and Earhart Street described seeing a dog attack in the street as neighbors jumped in to break it up.

“It was the most animalistic, barbaric scene,” said the neighbor who wanted to stay anonymous.

Lauren Laney showed KOMO News her bandaged hand where she says she was bit by a Pit bull while trying to save Jasper.

“I ran over there to see if I could help, and it was four Pit bulls attacking this one dog,” Laney stated.

She said she was walking her daughter to the bus stop when she heard someone's calls for help. She jumped in to try to separate the dogs she described as “relentless,” then called 911.

"Two of them we could scare off, but the other two were not letting go," Laney explained. "One guy was spraying the bear mace and was spraying the dogs with bear mace and it ended up in the air, so I think most of us got maced. But, [the dogs] did not care. They did not stop.”

Another man said the dogs' owner was there, but couldn't get them under control.

"I was on the phone with police, maybe like 10 minutes," the man explained.

The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office told KOMO News animal control took the dogs involved, and that this was not their first reported incident.

The Kitsap Humane Society had not responded to KOMO's multiple inquiries as of Wednesday evening about what penalties the dogs' owner could face, and what would happen to those dogs.