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

An employee 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 one other attack involving the identical canine earlier in the week, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said Friday on Facebook.

Jacqueline Summer Beard was pronounced lifeless Friday by the Franklin County coroner after local residents called 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 Pink Bay, near the Mississippi line, in line with the Fb publish.

Beard is believed to have been trying to contact the canine's owner — whom the sheriff's office recognized as Brandy Dowdy, 39 — when the canines killed her, the sheriff's office said.

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

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

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

The Franklin County Sheriff's Workplace could not instantly be reached for remark.

The Public Health Department didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.