INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis woman claims she told officers to use a Taser on one of her dogs, not shoot and kill it, after it fought with other pit bulls early Thursday.

Mary Meadors made a frantic call to 911 just before 11 a.m. to report a stray pit bull had come through her fence and was fighting with her three dogs in the 2100 block of Brookside Parkway North Drive, 6News' Rick Hightower reported.

"Hurry please. Oh my gosh, they're fighting," she is heard screaming during the call.

Lt. Jeffrey Duhamell said that when officers arrived, they found two of the dogs fighting, but were able to pull them apart. Meadors then slipped and fell, and witnesses said she told officers to shoot the dog so it wouldn't attack her.

"They say they heard her say 'Shoot him,' and about that time we tried to Taser it, and it was ineffective, and that's when the officers shot and killed the dog," Duhamell said.

Meadors told Hightower that she only wanted the officers to stun her dog, Simon, not kill it.

"He just kept shooting him until he died. I never told them to shoot him. I begged them not to shoot him," she said. "I was not in danger … That was a part of my family. They took that away from me."

One of Meadors' neighbors said he could hear the dogs fighting down the street, telling 911, "They're up there screaming, yelling. It sounds like somebody is dying."

"It sounded like a girl was getting attacked. It didn't even sound like a dog fighting," Mike Burghy told Hightower.

Another nearby pit bull owner said he believes what happened is the dog owner's fault, not the animal's.

"When you pin them up in a yard they're going to lash out eventually," said Wes Wheeler, who has two dogs of his own. "They're pit bulls. They were unfortunately bred to be pit bulls, but they also can be the greatest dogs in the world."

Duhamell said the incident is under investigation.