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

An employee of the Alabama Division of Public Well being was killed by a pack of dogs in the northwestern a part of the state last week as she was responding to a report about another assault involving the identical canines earlier in the week, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office mentioned Friday on Facebook.

Jacqueline Summer time Beard was pronounced useless Friday by the Franklin County coroner after native residents known as the police to report a suspicious automobile, the sheriff's workplace stated. Officers discovered the automobile with Beard's physique inside it in a rural space outside Purple Bay, close to the Mississippi line, based on the Facebook post.

Beard is believed to have been making an attempt to contact the canine's proprietor — whom the sheriff's workplace identified as Brandy Dowdy, 39 — when the canine killed her, the sheriff's office mentioned.

AL.com, the web site of a number of Alabama newspapers, reported that Beard was a 58-year-old environmental supervisor and a longtime employee of the Public Well being Department. It reported that on Friday morning, she was following up on an incident earlier in the week by which the canines attacked a girl who was strolling. The girl stays hospitalized in Mississippi, AL.com reported.

When officers arrived on the scene, several canine began attacking the residents, inflicting one in all them to sustain minor accidents and a number of the canine to be euthanized immediately, the sheriff's office stated. Officers then found Beard's physique in the automobile, the sheriff's workplace mentioned.

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

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

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