ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KMOV.com) - Angela Zorich says she remembers the April day in 2014 like it was yesterday.

“I saw them and they're just pouring in, they're covered head to toe, they got helmets, they're like military style," said Zorich.

Her life forever changed after she says the St. Louis County Police Department’s SWAT team came with a no-knock warrant for an unpaid gas bill.

"Why is this cop able to call in a SWAT team because I didn't have gas service at my house?" said Zorich.

She recalls SWAT members kicking in her front door, before firing at her pit bull.

"They put me and my son on our knees to watch her die. The officer squatted over her while she was dying with the search warrant, and he said, ‘You know why we're here?’ and I said, ‘No I don't know.’ When he said, ‘We’re here because your gas is off.’ I lost it," Zorich said.

The lead officer in the SWAT raid is a part of the department’s Problem Properties Unit, which goes after neglected properties in St. Louis County.

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Dobson says the unreasonable search violated Zorich’s 4th amendment rights and believes the St. Louis County’s $750,000 settlement is a way to head off trouble.

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