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Mon May 2, 2022, 06:28 AM May 2022

Alabama woman killed by pack of dogs; owner charged with manslaughter

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/alabama-woman-killed-pack-dogs-owner-charged-manslaughter-rcna26843

Alabama woman killed by pack of dogs; owner charged with manslaughter

Jacqueline Summer Beard, an employee of the state Public Health Department, was attacked as she was following up on a report of an attack by the same dogs, the sheriff's office said.

May 1, 2022, 4:01 PM EDT
By Julianne McShane

An employee of the Alabama Department of Public Health was killed by a pack of dogs in the northwestern part of the state last week as she was responding to a report about another attack involving the same dogs earlier in the week, the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said Friday on Facebook.

Jacqueline Summer Beard was pronounced dead Friday by the Franklin County coroner after local residents called the police to report a suspicious vehicle, the sheriff's office said. Officers found the car with Beard's body inside it in a rural area outside Red Bay, near the Mississippi line, according to the Facebook post.

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

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Alabama woman killed by pack of dogs; owner charged with manslaughter (Original Post) sl8 May 2022 OP
horrific Demovictory9 May 2022 #1
well...she looks sad about it. age 39???? Demovictory9 May 2022 #2
It's kind of like guns and a pathological need for a sense of protection from... what? elias7 May 2022 #3
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