Public health worker killed by

An Alabama sheriff’s workplace says a public well being employee was killed by a “pack of harmful canine” after she went to a house to comply with up on a report about canine attacking and injuring one other individual days earlier.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned the canine’ proprietor, Brandy Dowdy, 39, has been charged with manslaughter. Jail data on Sunday didn’t present whether or not she is represented by an legal professional.

Oliver mentioned deputies on Friday noticed a number of canine attacking folks south of Crimson Bay, and that led to 1 individual struggling minor accidents and to some canine being euthanized.

Deputies have been within the space to analyze an unknown car and so they discovered the physique of Jacqueline Summer time Beard, an Alabama Division of Public Well being worker. Oliver mentioned Beard was there due to a canine assault earlier within the week that despatched somebody to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, with accidents.

The sheriff mentioned investigators consider the canine attacked Beard as she tried contacting their proprietor. Crimson Bay is in northern Alabama, on the Mississippi state line.

The sheriff’s workplace mentioned Dowdy may even face expenses for violating Alabama’s harmful canine legislation, known as Emily’s Legislation. The legislation was named in reminiscence of Emily Colvin, who was killed by canine outdoors her dwelling in Jackson County in 2017. The legislation supplies for felony and misdemeanor expenses relying on the circumstances surrounding a harmful canine assault.

The incident comes about 10 weeks after a canine attacked two ladies at a Florida animal shelter, killing one and leaving the opposite injured.