A male 49-year old Amazon driver was found dead after a suspected dog attack.
Driver Found Dead
Excelsior Springs, MO - Late Monday, reports began emerging after a driver for Amazon was found dead following a suspected dog attack. Ray County deputies were dispatched to an area on Highway O after a caller said the truck had been parked in front of the house for several hours with its lights and engine running. Arriving deputies found the driver dead in the front yard. Two dogs spotted on scene were highly aggressive. Both dogs were shot and killed at the scene.
“Due to the fact of the nature of some of the injuries to the male driver, we can’t confirm or deny if they were the cause of the death of the driver, however we wanted to be safe,” Sheriff Scott Childers said. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death, Childers said, but the victim's injuries were consistent with being attacked by an animal. The victim's family was notified Monday night. The owners of the dogs were not home at the time of the attack, Childers said.
The two dogs involved in the attack were a German shepherd and an English mastiff, according to Sheriff Scott Childers.
In August, a rural postal carrier in Florida was mauled to death by a pack of dogs after her truck broke down while working her route. Arriving deputies said that 61-year old Pamela Rock, a United States Postal Service carrier, suffered "heavy trauma." Deputies had to apply multiple torniquets to control the bleeding. She had one arm amputated before she died that night. The five dogs had escaped a poorly fenced in area by going underneath it. Apparently, they did so routinely.
In 2017, a UPS driver was nearly killed by five pit bulls. Kevin Backlund, 59, jumped on the back of a trailer to stave off the animals. He survived, but suffered serious injuries. "I was surrounded on all four sides by these pit bulls and with no warning, no provocation whatsoever on my part, they were closing in," Backlund stated afterward. "The fight was on and it wasn’t just the fight, it was the fight of my life,"" Meanwhile, the owner claimed his dogs were just "doing their job."
In 2016, a process server was killed by a pack of dogs while trying to serve papers at the dog owner's home in Central Texas. Erin McCleskey, 36, was found dead, lying near the front gate of the property. She had exited her vehicle, leaving it running, and opened the front gate of the property. As soon she entered, she encountered the pack of dogs. Due to the dogs' owner fighting the euthanasia order, the dogs were not put down until after a trial was held in November 2017.
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Law enforcement departments across the United States should release consistent "baseline" information to the media and the public after each fatal dog mauling, including these items.
This past Summer 2022 was considered to be a “Summer of Slaughter” with near daily deaths by pitbulls.
But of new consideration is the waning daylight hours during this fall-to-spring long season. The darkness should bring new caution for delivery drivers, postal carriers and walkers getting their exercise. Plus folks who do not own cars.
Those dangerous dog owners must do everything possible to get their dogs solidly into another room when deliveries are made. Hopefully, walkers will travel only by daylight, which unfortunately is still dangerous. I hope car-less neighbors can join together to safely buy groceries or order groceries by delivery.
“Near daily deaths” over about a 2-week timeline, I recall.
This death was tragic and unnecessary. I would love to see pictures of these dogs. The mastiff is not a territorial breed.
GSDs are very territorial. A typical GSD might run out of a yard to bite but would quickly get back in its yard. A mastiff might not care if it’s at home or not.. There, of course, are dogs of every breed with bad temperament.
6 deaths (that we know of) in October. I don’t understand why more people are concerned about this.
Because it involves dogs. And, of course, everyone *knows* that the word dog is God spelled backwards.
Can’t have anything that interrupts the dog worship or the flow of money to the pet industry!
Dear Neighbor, Thank you for your comment and the sanity reminder. I’ve grown to HATE that God spelled backwards malarkey. Let’s take it a step further, is God known for mauling and murdering children? I don’t think so! The dog worship society will continue to turn a blind eye to this ongoing tragedy. Yes, just follow the money. When an Ikea dresser or faulty baby sling or whatever kills a child, no one sits around and tries to spell things backwards. Those dangerous products are all over the NATIONAL news and quickly recalled. I wish we could recall these vicious dogs.
They have locations where people can pick up Amazon packages. I think with aggressive dogs should use that option rather than have deliveries to their house.
I asked a postal carrier who delivered a package to my house how he keeps himself safe. (He knew about the Florida case.) He said he gets alerts about which houses harbor aggressive dogs. Because of that, he won’t go up to the door. Often times, no owner is there, and the snarling beast is threatening to bust through the door. I fear for these hardworking mail carriers, UPS and Amazon drivers. There needs to be safeguards in place, e.g. a tracking guide for the “beware of dogs” deliveries. I also warn these sweet, young missionaries who canvass my neighborhood.
If you ask the owners of vicious dogs if they bite, most owners will say, “No”. If you ask the owners of nice dogs if they will bite, most will say, “Yes”. They might bite.”. One can simply not trust the owners’ information. Please note that I don’t think the owners with aggressive dogs are lying when they give incorrect answers. They give the answers they believe are correct.
Did the owners of the “house lions” believe that their two bullies would kill their children? Of course not.
I even wonder if the biting dogs are giving body language that they are going to bite but the owners cannot or will not recognize it.
I witnessed a dog bite last night. Whose fault was it? It was the victim’s fault. I don’t think the bite broke the skin. The dog bit because he was cornered by a person he fears. Fight or Flight. He couldn’t get away. He was giving a lot of body language that he would bite. The victim ignored it.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if people could recognize their dogs’ body language? A closed mouth equals upset. Panting equals relaxed. A dog which is panting will close its mouth right before biting.
Tragically, bully dogs are intentionally created to not give warning before attacking.
Most normal dogs give warning because survival instincts cause them to avoid severe attacks/fights.
They rush and retreat, they bite and release. They want you to leave so they let you leave.
Mauling gripping dogs do not want to avoid attacks/fights.
There’s no point in giving warning before doing what they are created to do.
Pointers don’t give warning before pointing, they just point.
Retrievers don’t give warning before retrieving, they just retrieve..
While any dog can bite, we aren’t here because of a dog bite, We’re meeting here because of game insane dogs that are created to mature to want to grip, maul and kill.
Exactly, Debbie.
One thing of note though: In decades, I’ve only ever seen one well-trained pit bull that was owned by a dog trainer.
They’re all lunging, pulling and completely deaf to anything the owner says unless they’re waving a cookie and even then–generally, not.
Their owners are dragged behind them on harnesses, or using hobble harnesses what the dog leaps and lunges and most are barking and acting like utter idiots and the few who are not–still are not paying attention to their owners or heeling.
That’s even before we get to the insta-maul, phase.
Rachel, what I’ve noticed is this.
If you ask someone, “Is your dog friendly?” and the answer is quickly, “this is a good dog” (while the dog sits quietly)–they’re likely telling the truth.
If you ask someone and they say, “Yes except…”–There is no “except/but”–a dog has either been trustworthy up to that point or it has not.
Also, I don’t give a crap what the owners believe. If the dog is ignoring the owner, leaping and lunging even in friendliness, barking, cowering or eye-fugging me or my dog or walleyed–I’m taking off across the street.
In other words, if it’s not quiet and well-mannered while you ask the question, get outta Dodge.
Sadly, so many people with aggressive dogs are in total denial that they are aggressive though. Just listen to most pitbull owners.
There should be manslaughter charges brought for the owners.
The 2017 UPS driver account was frightening because he was trapped on a vehicle w 2 of the 4 pitbulls hanging onto his legs.
The criminal case could unbelievably not be made despite the frowsy blonde pitbulls owner threatening to shoot first responder fire department battalion chief after barring him from the property. And no previous complaints about the dogs. No more free bites!
How is that not, at least, endangerment?
I mean, if I’m waving a weapon around and you’re scared–I’d be charged but somehow if I let my dog snarl and snap at your feet I’m not responsible for my property?
Colour me confused.
Color me infuriated.
“But after reviewing the case, the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office said investigators said they could find no witnesses to any prior incidents involving the dogs – and prior incidents are necessary to charge a crime, according to Pierce County Legal Services Manager John Nourse.
However, Backlund is personally suing the owner of the pit bulls.”
https://komonews.com/news/local/prosecutor-no-criminal-charges-in-horrific-pit-bull-attack-on-ups-driver
This woman was enjoined as a defendant in the civil lawsuit. It’s hard to believe more action wasn’t taken against her for obstruction of justice.
https://www.injurytriallawyer.com/news/woman-who-refused-to-cooperate-with-rescue-workers-in-4-pit-bull-attack-on-ups-driver-identified.cfm
Do we know the names of the owners of these dogs on Rose Lane in Excelsior Springs? Pictures need to be posted by the police department of the dogs.
I am pretty sure I know the property these dogs were on and the owners’ names. They must have installed a new fence since the street view was done but it’s the same porch as the news coverage. They just so happen to be on a cruise right now according to the daughter-in-law. The wife locked down her account so no pictures or information. Husband doesn’t appear to have social media. Why do they protect the identities of vicious dog owners?
Why do they protect they identities? Well, I’ll tell you why. Disclosing their identity would probably interfere with all of that virtue signaling.
I’m referring to all that rhetoric about rescuing dogs, being dog parents, and those bumper stickers that say things like “I heart my pit bull.”
In this case, I’m surprised that they didn’t take their adorable doggie-woggies with them on the cruise.
“…please please please put up your dogs. We can re-attempt a package delivery but we can’t replace a driver,” Wright stated.
Wright is a dispatcher and coworker of the gung-ho Amazon driver who loved his job. Interview: https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/10/29/sheriff-missouri-amazon-driver-dead-following-apparent-dog-attack/
Any photos of the attacking dogs to be found anywhere ?