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
Highlights
- Jacqueline Summer Beard was pronounced dead Friday by the Franklin County coroner after local residents called the police to report a suspicious vehicle.
- Officers found the car with Beard’s body inside it in a rural area outside Red Bay, near the Mississippi line.
- 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.
- Beard was a 58-year-old environmental supervisor and a longtime employee of the Public Health Department.
- She was following up on an incident earlier in the week in which the dogs attacked a woman who was walking.
- The woman remains hospitalized in Mississippi.