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GRANDMOTHER. AND DESPITE THE TRAGEDY THAT HAPPENED HERE, THAT SHE DOESN’T WANT THE DOG PUT DOWN. >> I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT, BUT I KNOW THAT IT WASN’T ON PURPOSE. HEAVEN ASTACIO, MOURNING THE LOSS OF HER MOM MELISSA TONIGHT. THE 44-YEAR-OLD MAULED TO DEATH IN HER SOMERSET HOME FRIDAY NIGHT, KILLED BY HER EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PITBULL AMIGO. >> SHE ALWAYS KNEW HOW TO MAKE YOU LAUGH. SHE’S IN A BETTER PLACE NOW. >> THE D.A. SAYS THE DOG ATTACKED THE VICTIM WHILE SHE WAS HAVING A SEIZURE. BUT HER FAMILY SAYS MELISSA HAD EPILEPSY FOR DECADES, AND THE DOG, SINCE IT WAS A PUPPY. THEY BELIEVE IT WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP. >> WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT, IT NEVER HAPPENED LIKE THAT BEFORE. I DON’T WANT TO SEE MY DOG GET PUT DOWN FOR SOMETHING HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP WITH. >> THE INCIDENT IS THE SECOND OF ITS KIND IN BRISTOL COUNTY THIS YEAR. A DOG ALSO KILLED A TEENAGE BOY IN DIGHTON, BACK IN MAY. TOWN SELECTMEN VOTING TO EUTHANIZE IT. THE FATE OF AMIGO REMAIN UNCLEAR, AS THE FAMILY OF HIS OWNER MOURNS WHAT SAY WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. >> ALL MY MOM EVER WANTED WA FOR ME AND HER THREE KIDS WAS TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE THAN SHE COULD. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE YOU, MOM.

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A 44-year-old Somerset woman is dead after her family's dog mauled her while she was having a seizure, according to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office. Officials said Somerset police received a 911 call at about 5:20 p.m. Friday from the victim's daughter. She told police that her mother, Melissa Astacio, was having a seizure inside their home at 229 Lees River Ave. when the family dog began to attack. Upon arrival, police were forced to use a Taser on the dog before police and paramedics were able to treat Astacio, according to officials.The District Attorney's Office said Astacio was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. Friday."She always know how to make you laugh. She's in a better place now," said Heaven Astacio, the victim's daughter."All my mom ever wanted was for me and her three kids to have a better life than she could, and I just want to say: 'I love you, mom.'" Astacio's family and friends said she suffered from epileptic seizures for decades and had the dog, an 8-year-old pit bull named Amigo, sine he was a puppy.Heaven Astacio believes what happened was an accident and that Amigo was actually trying to help her mother when she had a seizure."I don't know what to make of it, but I know that it wasn't on purpose," Heaven Astacio said. "What happened that night, it never happened like that before. I don't want to see my dog get put down for something he was only trying to help with."Officials said the dog was secured at the scene by Swansea Animal Rescue officers and has been place in quarantine at their facility in Swansea.The death remains under investigation, although the District Attorney's Office said no criminal conduct or foul play is suspected.The death is the second of its kind in Bristol County this year, as a dog killed a teenage boy in Dighton in May. Town selectmen voted to euthanize it.