Linda Cutler has been charged with manslaughter(Image: Jam Press/Brevard County Sheriff's Office)

A Florida woman has been arrested after her two dogs fatally mauled a neighbor who was walking in the area.

Linda Cutler, 29, waschargedwith manslaughter in connection with the May 19 incident. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Jodi Cowan, 50, was attacked by the mixed-breed animals during an early morning walk near her home in Cocoa,Florida.

According to Ivey, Cutler's dogs climbed over a fence and attacked the victim, dragging her across the ground in the street. "The dogs, identified as Max and Mako, climbed over the owner's fence and began to brutally attack and maul Cowan, forcing her to the ground, viciously attacking her and eventually dragging her across the ground for quite some distance," the sheriff said during a press conference. It comes after a separate horrifying incident where awoman, 27, was gang raped, stabbed 50 times, and forced to carry her intestines in her hands.

The sheriff said surveillance video from a neighboring home captured the dogs running towards Cowan before mauling her. The victim suffered serious neck injuries and sever blood loss - and she died at the hospital two hours later.

As previously reported byPeople, the victim's partner, Donnell Smith, said he used a knife to keep the dogs away while trying to help his partner. "I saw the silhouette of the two dogs dragging my wife down the road, off into the grass in front of the truck down there," Smith told WESH.

Jodi Cowan died in hospital hours after the attack(Image: Jam Press/Brevard County Sheriff's Office)

He said Cowan had dog bites all over her body and was in a full of blood. "I pulled my knife out, you know, just swinging it with one hand and holding the blood with the other, trying to stop her from bleeding," said Smith, adding he called 911.

Describing the horror he witnessed, Smith said, "It was brutal. Seeing the same woman I've loved for the last 25, 30 years just ripped apart by two animals was just … I'll never get that image out of my mind."

A video grab showing Cowan being chased and attacked by the dogs(Image: Jam Press/Brevard County Sheriff)

Source: Drudge Report