King County has agreed to pay $21.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a jogger who was critically wounded by two dogs linked to a house that neighbors had repeatedly complained about.

“The conclusion of this case allows our family to put this trauma behind us and heal,” Gyongyi Maas said in a statement through Stritmatter Law.

Attorney Gemma Zanowski said the animals attacked Maas as she was jogging on a public street in her neighborhood in February 2022.

“The dogs came from behind her and took her down to the ground,” Zanowski told KIRO Newsradio.

She said the wounds the 38-year-old mother of two suffered were horrific.

“They [the dogs] broke bones in both of her arms, they bit off most of her ear, they lacerated her head, her torso, and a muscle was torn from he

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