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Amazon driver found dead in Missouri yard may have been killed by dogs, authorities say
The Amazon supply car is pictured on the scene on Oct. 24, 2022, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. (Credit score: WDAF-TV)
EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo. – Authorities in rural northwest Missouri are investigating the loss of life of an Amazon driver whose physique was present in a yard of a house with accidents according to an animal assault.
Deputies have been referred to as on Monday night to a house in Excelsior Springs after stories that an Amazon truck had been parked in the identical spot for about two hours, with its lights on and motor working.
The driving force’s physique was discovered within the yard in entrance of the house, Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers mentioned. His title has not been launched.
Childers mentioned the person had accidents according to canine bites and two “aggressive” canines — a German Shepherd and English Mastiff — have been on the dwelling. Nonetheless, an post-mortem will probably be performed to find out if the canines precipitated the driving force’s loss of life, he mentioned.
“We’re not saying the canines have been the reason for loss of life. We don’t know that but. We do know that they have been aggressive although,” Childers advised FOX 4 in Kansas Metropolis.
On the time, the owners have been out of city however the canines have been being cared for, the sheriff mentioned.
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A responding deputy shot and injured the mastiff as a result of it was aggressive towards sheriff’s deputies and medical responders on the scene, Childers mentioned. The canines then went again into the home, however the deputies might hear them barking and noticed blood on the doggie door.
Childers mentioned he and deputies then went into the house and shot and killed the canines so as to defend deputies, medical personnel, and detectives on the scene.
Amazon mentioned in a press release that it was “deeply saddened” by the driving force’s loss of life and helps legislation enforcement with the investigation.
Excelsior Springs is about 30 miles northeast of Kansas Metropolis.
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