Pit bulls kill 63-year-old woman

Alex Donald Jackson, who is charged with murder and other counts stemming from the mauling death of a Littlerock woman by a pack of pit bulls, is shown at his arraignment in Lancaster.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A cross of flowers still stands at the site where Pamela Devitt was killed by a pack of dogs on May 9 in Littlerock.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Jane Hammer, shown with her husband Rally, holds the pistol she carries around her neck when walking near her home. The Hammers live down the road from where Pamela Devitt was killed by a pack of dogs on May 9.   (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Ben Devitt holds a photo of his wife, Pamela Maria Devitt, who was killed by a pack of pit bulls May 9 in Littlerock.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy drives by the spot on Avenue S where a pack of pit bulls fatally mauled 63-year-old Pamela Maria Devitt.  (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Authorities seized six pit bulls and two other dogs from this home on May 9.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

One of the pit bulls seized by authorities was being kept in an Los Angeles County animal shelter in Lancaster.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Neighbors told KTLA-TV Channel 5 that they shot a video of the dogs hopping over the fence at the house where they lived. “If there’s people on horses or elderly people walking, they attack them,” one man, who did not want to be identified, told the station.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)