A Pensacola woman is charged with manslaughter in the death of a 63-year-old man who died after suffering “horrific” injuries in an attack by the woman’s pit bull dogs, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.

During a Monday afternoon press conference, Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said 35-year-old Kathleen Ann Taylor had failed at every opportunity to take steps to keep the dogs secured.

“Kathleen Taylor failed to properly secure her home or her kennels or any other enclosures designed to keep her dogs from roaming free,” Simmons said. “She failed to do so even though she’s had a long history of allowing her dogs to roam free with animal control, but still she took no action.”

Escambia County deputies responded to a cardiac arrest call in the 400 block of Norris Avenue on Feb. 25, according to a report in the Pensacola News Journal.

A witness at the scene said the man, who has not been identified, was attacked by three pit bulls. The witness managed to scare off the dogs and called 911.

Simmons said the victim suffered multiple injuries to his head, face and torso — describing the injuries as “horrific.” He was taken to a local hospital, but died of the injuries.

Both Simmons and county animal control officer John Robinson said Taylor had been fined, cited and warned multiple times about allowing the dogs to roam free on and around her property.

Simmons said Taylor repeatedly failed to lock her kennels, repair holes in the kennels, kept them on a leash, listened to animal control or cared about her neighbors, the man’s death would have been avoided.

“You had that responsibility, you failed and now a man is dead,” Simmons said of Taylor.

Simmons noted that, under Florida law, negligent homicide is defined as the killing of a human through an act of culpable negligence, not murder or homicide.

“She had been cited, warned, fined — but still took no action,” Simmons said, adding that when first responders arrived to treat the victim, Taylor grabbed one of her dogs and left.

“She wasn’t concerned about the safety of this individual,” he said, “only about one of her dogs that was involved.”

Simmons also said Taylor had been arrested on April 17 on a drug possession charge and was free on bond from that arrest when deputies took her into custody on the manslaughter charge.

She remains without bond in the Escambia County Jail, with an arraignment set for May 26.

Two of the three dogs involved in the attack have been killed, one shot the following day and another euthanized after Taylor surrendered it to officers. The third is being held pending a court hearing.