A Texas woman was attacked and killed by multiple wild pigs in what authorities characterized as “a very rare incident.”
Christine Rollins, 59, was found dead Sunday morning in the front yard of a home where she worked as a caretaker for the 84-year-old homeowner. The homeowner, who lives in the small city of Anahuac, found Rollins’s body between her vehicle and the front door.
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The medical examiner believes that Rollins died from bleeding to death during the attack. Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said that the cause of death was “exsanguination due to feral hog assault.”
Hawthorne said that Rollins suffered from multiple bites from the hogs and a head injury that appears to be related to a fall.
“We can kind of tell that from the different sizes of the bites,” Hawthorne said Monday. “My detectives and the criminal investigation team felt like that’s what it was. But it was not something we could come close to announcing until we had the cause of death from the medical examiner’s office.”
During a press conference, Hawthorne declined to go into detail about what the scene looked like, but said, “In my 35 years, I will tell you it’s one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.”
He called the attack “unbelievably tragic.”
“This is a very rare incident, just what little research we have found less than six of these have been reported in the nation,” Hawthorne said.
