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 within the northwestern part of the state last week as she was responding to a report about one other attack involving the identical canine earlier in the week, the Franklin County Sheriff's Workplace mentioned Friday on Fb.

Jacqueline Summer time Beard was pronounced useless Friday by the Franklin County coroner after local residents called the police to report a suspicious automobile, the sheriff's office said. Officers found the automobile with Beard's physique inside it in a rural area outside Purple Bay, near the Mississippi line, in keeping with the Facebook publish.

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 canine killed her, the sheriff's office said.

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 Division. It reported that on Friday morning, she was following up on an incident earlier in the week wherein the canine attacked a girl who was strolling. The woman stays hospitalized in Mississippi, AL.com reported.

When officers arrived at the scene, several canine started attacking the residents, inflicting one in every of them to maintain minor injuries and a few of the canines to be euthanized immediately, the sheriff's office said. Officers then discovered Beard's physique within the automotive, the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

Dowdy was charged with manslaughter and is being held with out bail, public data present.

The Franklin County Sheriff's Office could not instantly be reached for comment.

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