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

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

Jacqueline Summer Beard was pronounced lifeless Friday by the Franklin County coroner after native residents referred to as the police to report a suspicious automobile, the sheriff's office said. Officers discovered the automotive with Beard's physique inside it in a rural area outdoors Red Bay, close to the Mississippi line, according to the Facebook submit.

Beard is believed to have been making an attempt to contact the canine's owner — whom the sheriff's office identified 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 employee of the Public Health Department. It reported that on Friday morning, she was following up on an incident earlier in the week by which the dogs attacked a lady who was walking. The woman remains hospitalized in Mississippi, AL.com reported.

When officers arrived on the scene, several dogs began attacking the residents, inflicting one in all them to sustain minor accidents and some of the dogs to be euthanized instantly, the sheriff's workplace stated. Officers then discovered Beard's physique within the automobile, the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

Dowdy was charged with manslaughter and is being held without bail, public data show.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Workplace could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Public Well being Department didn't immediately reply to a request for comment.