Alabama lady killed by pack of canine; owner charged with manslaughter

An worker of the Alabama Division of Public Health was killed by a pack of dogs in the northwestern a part of the state final week as she was responding to a report about another attack involving the same dogs earlier in the week, the Franklin County Sheriff's Workplace mentioned Friday on Facebook.

Jacqueline Summer Beard was pronounced dead Friday by the Franklin County coroner after local residents known as the police to report a suspicious car, the sheriff's workplace stated. Officers discovered the car with Beard's physique inside it in a rural space exterior Pink Bay, near the Mississippi line, based on the Facebook submit.

Beard is believed to have been trying to contact the dog's owner — whom the sheriff's workplace recognized as Brandy Dowdy, 39 — when the dogs killed her, the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

AL.com, the website of a number of Alabama newspapers, reported that Beard was a 58-year-old environmental supervisor and a longtime worker of the Public Health Division. It reported that on Friday morning, she was following up on an incident earlier in the week wherein the dogs attacked a lady who was walking. The woman stays hospitalized in Mississippi, AL.com reported.

When officers arrived on the scene, a number of canines began attacking the residents, causing considered one of them to sustain minor injuries and some of the canines to be euthanized instantly, the sheriff's office mentioned. Officers then found Beard's physique in the car, the sheriff's workplace stated.

Dowdy was charged with manslaughter and is being held with out bail, public information show.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Workplace couldn't instantly be reached for remark.

The Public Well being Department didn't immediately respond to a request for remark.