A heartbroken Kentucky man made a desperate plea for help after his wife was mauled to death by a roaming pack of wild dogs.
Priscilla Jones, 44, was attacked on August 29 as she took a walk along Sandy Branch Road in Flat Lick, an unincorporated community in rural Knox County.
A local heard Jones screaming out for help and ran outside to see ‘several dogs’ attacking her, WBIR reports.
The witness called 911, but by the time paramedics arrived on scene Jones had already sustained life-threatening injuries and was unable to communicate.
She was transported to nearby Barbourville ARH Hospital, where she later died from her injuries.
The family’s grief was compounded by the sudden, imposing cost of her burial.
‘We gotta come up with at least $3,250 by tomorrow by 5 o’clock. Which is her birthday. Or we won’t be able to bury her,’ her husband Johnny told the TV station on Tuesday.
He also described the agonizing moment he found his wife lying mutilated in the grass.
Priscilla Jones, 44, was mauled to death by a roaming pack of dogs while walking through her rural Kentucky neighborhood
Priscilla’s husband Johnny was forced to make a desperate last-ditch plea for help so that the family can give her a proper funeral after her unexpected death
Johnny, along with his and Jones’s two children, witnessed the aftermath.
The trio found Jones lying in a grassy field after they heard the worrying sounds of ambulances and police cars descending on the neighborhood.
‘I got worried. I went up there just being nosy I guess, I went up through there and there she is,’ he told WLEX.
The grieving widow is also in disbelief that wild dogs were able to cause such horror.
‘I believe the first blow to the back of the neck was a lethal that made her go down and then the dogs helped her,’ Johnny said.
The family was collecting monetary donations at Barbourville Affordable Funeral Home, but it is unclear if they managed to secure the funds by the deadline.
The funeral home did not answer when Daily Mail called on Thursday afternoon.
Jones’s obituary has also not yet been posed on the funeral home’s website.
Jones was attacked on August 29 as she took a walk along Sandy Branch Road in Flat Lick, Kentucky. State police investigated a similar death on the road in May
Johnny has paid tribute to his late wife, hailing her kindness and dedication to helping others
Johnny, however, has paid tribute to his late wife, hailing her kindness and dedication to helping others.
‘If anybody needed a shirt — she had them. Me and her both have took people off the street and we have fed them. We gave them a place to sleep,’ he told WBIR as tears flooded his eyes.
‘She just was that kind of a person.’
The Knox County Sheriff’s Office says the investigation into Jones’s death remains ongoing and has warned that the owner of the dogs could face charges.
The department has been in contact with animal control who have been searching for the dogs responsible for the attack.
Sheriff Mike Smith has urged the community to remain vigilant, alleging that Jones is the second person to mauled to death in just four months.
Kentucky State Police investigated a similar death on Sandy Branch Road in May, according to the sheriff.
