Pickaway County deputy dog warden fired after ABC6 Investigation into deadly dog attack

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Pickaway County deputy dog warden fired after ABC6 Investigation into deadly dog attack
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Joann Echelbarger, a 73-year-old grandmother from Ashville, was killed by her neighbor's pit bulls in October 2024.

According to documents, neither Ashville PD nor the dog warden removed injured pit bulls from the condo before the deadly attack later in October 2024. of Jo Ann Echelbarger, a 73-year-old grandmother from Ashville, who was killed by her neighbor's pit bulls, Apollo and Echo in October of 2024.

ABC6 On Your Side is revealing new documents in the Pickaway County deadly dog attack case from Oct. 2024. Watch ABC6 News Thursday, February 5 at 6:00 p.m. Pickaway County SWAT and Ashville police executing a search warrant at the site where a dog killed a woman. . Officers were looking to arrest dog owner Adam Withers on drug charges. Weeks prior to this incident, a Pickaway County judge had ordered both dogs be removed from Withers' home out of a previous civil lawsuit. In what some attorneys call the most gruesome dog attack in Ohio, the family of Jo Ann Echelbarger is expressing frustration with what they call negligence from the county and a lack of change. October 17, 2025 However, the on-call deputy dog warden refused to respond. Officers ended up transporting Apollo back to his owner's condo by police car. { }Jo Ann Echelbarger, 73, died after she was attacked by two dogs while she was working in her flowerbeds at her home in Pickaway County, Ohio on Oct. 17, 2024. The county did not investigate this lack of response from the dog warden's office until five months later, following aA car crashed into the Donato's restaurant in Dublin on Wednesday morning.Few details were immediately available, but Dublin police posted on social media at abThe Hocking County Sheriff is revealing more details in the death of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee.The Perry County prosecutor has confirmed that remains found over the weekend in Wayne National Forest belong to missing Indiana teenager Hailey Buzbee.ProseVery cold today with a few flurries as more clouds move in. Snow showers Friday with breezy conditions. Frigid to start the weekend, then a few flurries to end

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