ASTORIA, Ore. -- The 4-year-old stepdaughter of a reality TV show star was mauled to death in Astoria by the family's Rottweiler. The girl, Ashlynn Anderson, is the stepdaughter of Jesse Browning, who appears with his father on The History Channel's show about the logging industry called "Ax Men." The family's Rottweiler, Cornelia, was in the back yard but somehow jumped the fence and attacked Ashlynn in the front yard. "She loved those dogs, she played with them all the time," said Browning. "(She) was just outside for a couple of minutes...it happened so fast." The girl's mother heard Ashlynn scream, and came out to find the dog over her daughter, according to Clatsop County Sheriff Tom Bergin. Ashlynn was flown to a Portland hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. "She was the brightest little girl you could ever think of," said Jesse Browning. "She was so smart, so full of energy, so full of love." The attack happened four months after officers had taken a Rottweiler from the same home after it bit an adult family member. That dog was destroyed. The two Rottweilers at the Browning home have been quarantined. There was no word whether the dog that killed Ashlynn would be put down.
