Officer dies after pit bull encounter

PLAINFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Police say a Connecticut animal control officer has died a week after being knocked down by a pit bull that was threatening a family in Plainfield.

Police and a funeral director say 47-year-old Theresa Foss died yesterday (Thursday) at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Her cause of death wasn't released.

Police say the dog did not bite Foss, and Charles Gagne of Gagne-Piechowski Funeral Home in Jewett City says her death was not related to the September 29 incident.

The Plainfield officer responded to a home on Green Hollow Road on a report of an aggressive pit bull that had trapped a family inside their home.

Police say Foss suffered a head injury when she was knocked down.

The dog's owner says he later killed the dog and buried it in Canterbury after learning what it had done.