RESIDENTS OF OGLETHORPE COUNTY, GEORGIA, ARE stunned after learning that two prominent citizens were killed by a pack of wild dogs over the weekend.
Lothar Schweder, 77, and his wife Sherry, 66, were both employed at the nearby University of Georgia. Lothar was a professor of German studies and his wife was a long-time bibliographer in the university library.
Sherry often went for walks in their rural neighborhood and set out Friday evening on one. When she didn’t return after an abnormal time, Lothar got in his car and set out looking. Evidence indicates that Sherry had been attacked and mauled by a pack of wild dogs that lives in the area and when her husband found her he got out of the car to help her and he was then attacked and killed also.
On Saturday morning a passing neighbor found the Schweders’ car in the middle of the road and the two bodies on either side of it.
The Associated Press has this video report:
Jim Fullington, GBI Special Agent in Charge of the Athens office said autopsies confirmed the cause of death Monday. “The preliminary results of both autopsies indicate that both Mr. and Mrs. Schweder died as a result of injuries received of multiple animal bites and we are assuming dog bites,” he said.
Sheriff’s deputies and animal control officers have captured 9 adult animals and 4 juveniles so far.
TV station WXIA has more information and another video HERE.
Recent Comments