A Somerville woman was attacked by a raccoon after opening her back door at 1 a.m on Saturday. Katharine VanBuskirk woke up in the middle of the night to get water and was about to let her dogs out ...

A Somerville woman says she was attacked by a raccoon over the weekend while letting her dogs out in a community yard.

Somerville woman, Katharine VanBuskirk, was attacked by a raccoon and sustained multiple injuries. She is now raising ...

A Somerville woman says she was attacked by a raccoon over the weekend while letting her dogs out in her backyard.

It was around 1 a.m. on a cool Saturday morning in Somerville, Massachusetts, when Katharine VanBuskirk, 69, was viciously attacked by a raccoon on her porch. VanBuskirk was letting out her pet ...

SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts ( WCVB) -- A Somerville woman says she was attacked by a raccoon over the weekend while letting her dogs out in a community yard. Katharine VanBuskirk says the yard on ...

What started as a quiet moment letting the dogs out quickly spiraled into chaos for one Somerville woman over the weekend.

A Somerville woman is recovering from injuries she suffered when she was attacked by a raccoon over the weekend.

A Massachusetts woman's late-night encounter with an aggressive assailant left her bloodied—and in need of rabies treatment.