The woman who was attacked and killed by her own dog​ in Boston has been identified as Jeriline Brady-McGinnis.

A woman who was bitten by her dog in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on Monday afternoon has died, police said Tuesday morning.

Roxbury neighborhood, Chief Deputy Paul McLaughlin told reporters at a news conference. They found two people — a man and woman — with bite wounds, police said. As officers were rendering aid, police said the same dog came back and charged at them.

A woman from Boston has died, and her husband is badly injured after police say they were attacked by their dog.

An elderly Massachusetts woman was mauled to death by her own pit bull and her husband was injured when he jumped in to help her Monday evening, friends and police said. Jeriline Brady-McGinnis, 73, was gruesomely killed by her dog inside their home in Roxbury around 4:30 p.

The pit bull that killed a woman in a Roxbury dog attack, hurt her husband and injured two police officers has been put down, Boston Animal Control officials said Tuesday.