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The Apex man whose dogs police said fatally attacked an 85-year-old woman last week now faces a felony charge for her death.<\/p>\n

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Dennis O\u2019Keith Faulkner, 32, was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with involuntary manslaughter, the Chatham County Sheriff\u2019s Office said, after Betty Alston, 85, died from her injuries.<\/p>\n

That felony charge adds to the six misdemeanors that Faulkner initially faced after the incident: three counts of allowing animals to roam at large prohibited and three counts of dog vaccination violations, The News & Observer previously reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chatham County deputies were dispatched to Alston Road in Apex May 19 where they found Alston dead outside the home. Alston\u2019s daughter told ABC11,<\/a> The N&O\u2019s newsgathering partner, that her mother was in the yard when three dogs attacked her.<\/p>\n

A family member told deputies that he had to shoo the dogs away from himself and Alston when he arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n

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Investigators later identified those three dogs as belonging to Faulkner, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said, and the dogs remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined Alston died because of injuries sustained during \u201can animal attack,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Faulkner is being held without bail in Chatham County custody and is set to appear in court on June 3.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff\u2019s Office also reported last week two previous incidents involving Faulkner and two dogs he owned, including a December 2025 report of loose dogs and a February 2026 well-being check on the same two dogs. Faulkner surrendered the dogs after the second incident, The N&O previously reported.<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published May 27, 2026 at 12:39 PM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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