Animal Shelter Employee Mauled To Death By Two Dogs

A man was mauled to decease by 2 dogs while moving astatine a Mississippi animal shelter, section news outlets reported.

The employee, Clifford Phillips Jr., 57, was trying to put a canine successful a pen that was already occupied erstwhile he was attacked, his friend told WREG of Memphis, Tennessee. The incident occurred connected July 17 astatine Second Chance Animal Alliance.

“A canine was already successful a pen and he was trying to put different canine successful location and nan different canine tried to tally out,” Dudley Woods said. “He tried to clasp him disconnected pinch his ft and that canine grabbed his leg, pulled him down. And past nan different canine jumped successful pinch him.”

Woods said 1 of nan dogs was a pit bull and nan different was a “pit mixed breed.” He said nan incident was caught connected information video wrong nan shelter.

The Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Thursday.

The shelter said successful a July 25 statement that it was "devastated by this loss."

"It has been 1 week since nan decease astatine nan shelter of our friend and worker Cliff Phillips. ... While we cannot reside each mobility aliases rumor we person seen complete this past week, we person cooperated pinch section officials," nan shelter said. "Please cognize that we return nan information and information of our volunteers and labor seriously. We are proud of nan activity we do successful our organization and will stay vigilant arsenic we proceed to do it."