Amazon delivery driver found dead after an apparent dog attack - NBC News

A transportation operator for Amazon was recovered dormant aft an evident carnal onslaught Monday successful Missouri, and deputies changeable and killed 2 assertive dogs, the Ray County sheriff said.

Deputies were called to a location successful Excelsior Springs, a municipality of astir 10,000, astir 7 p.m. aft neighbors reported that an Amazon van had been parked determination for respective hours, Sheriff Scott Childers said.

A man's assemblage was recovered successful a yard, arsenic were 2 highly assertive dogs, helium said. Deputies changeable and killed the animals.

The man’s individuality was not instantly disclosed.

A transportation operator for Amazon was recovered dormant Monday aft an evident carnal onslaught successful Excelsior Springs, Mo. KSHB

The aesculapian examiner volition find the origin of death, Childers said, but the victim's injuries were accordant with being attacked by an animal.

His household was being notified Monday night, the sheriff said.

The owners of the residence were not home, and it appears they are retired of town, Childers said.

Amazon spokesperson Lisa Levandowski expressed sorrow connected behalf of the company.

“We’re profoundly saddened by tonight’s tragic incidental involving a member of our Amazon household and volition be providing enactment to the squad and the driver’s loved ones," Levandowski said. "We are assisting instrumentality enforcement successful their investigation.”

The dogs were a German shepherd and an English mastiff, NBC affiliate KSHB of Kansas City reported.

Excelsior Springs is astir 25 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.

In Florida successful August, a U.S. postal idiosyncratic died aft having been attacked by 5 dogs, officials determination said. Pamela Jane Rock, 61, was killed Aug. 21 successful Putnam County, which is southbound of Jacksonville.

CORRECTION (Oct. 25, 2022, 4:24 p.m. ET): A erstwhile mentation of this nonfiction misstated the archetypal sanction of the sheriff of Ray County, Missouri. He is Scott Childers, not Ray.