Pregnant woman killed by own pit bull

PRELIMINARY post-mortem results show that a pregnant San Francisco woman who was killed by her own pit bull died from blood loss and shock, San Francisco area police said.

An autopsy performed on 32-year-old Darla Napora, along with analysis by dog bite experts, also concluded that only one of her two dogs, a 2-year-old male named Gunner, took part in the fatal attack.

Police say Napora’s husband returned to the couple’s home in the Bay Area village of Pacifica to find his pregnant wife’s mauled body, with the bloodied pit bull standing over her.

Paramedics failed to revive Napora, who was suffering from massive trauma to her upper body, and she was pronounced dead at the scene, along with her unborn baby, police said.

Gunner was shot and killed by officers in the front yard of the couple’s home after he apparently got free from a back room, where Napora’s husband had tried to confine him, police said.

A second pit bull, a female, was found cowering in a corner.

Dental mpressions taken from both pit bulls revealed that all of Napora’s injuries were consistent with bites from Gunner and that there was no evidence that the female dog took part in the attack, police said.

Pacifica Police Capt. Dave Bertini said authorities were trying to determine why Napora’s dog attacked her.

“We may never know why it happened,” Bertini said, adding that the couple was keeping both pit bulls as pets.

Bertini said no evidence had been discovered so far to indicate that the dogs had been trained to be aggressive.