Jamie Coots of Middlesboro, Ky., refused treatment after being bitten. Feb. 17, 2014— -- The "snake handling" pastor of a small Pentecostal church in Kentucky died after being bitten by a ...

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Snake handling began near Chattanooga, Tenn., ... Toomey said Hensley died of a snakebite and reports show he had been bitten nearly 400 times prior to his fatal bite.

Veteran Snake Handler Bitten By Lethal Snake That Mistook His Hand For Food. Published Sep 22, ... "Most snake bites are the fault of the person who gets bitten—not the snake," he added.

Getty Images While it is safe to assume that none of us want to be bitten by a snake, it is always good to know how to handle ...

For Snake-Handling Preacher, 10th Bite Proves Fatal Pastor Jamie Coots wanted to educate the outside world about snake handling and was fearless in his faith. He lost consciousness after being ...

A veteran snake handler has died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake at a festival in south Texas, relatives and officials said. Eugene De Leon Sr., 60, who had wrangled snakes for more than 20 ...

FREER, Texas — A rattlesnake handler died after he was bitten by a snake at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas on Saturday. Eugene De Leon Sr., 60, of the Snake Busters Snake Handlers in Freer ...

Reality show snake handler dies from snake bite. ... Coots and Hamblin believed that, if they did not practice the snake-handling ritual, they would be condemned to hell.

A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about handling snakes during church services, died Saturday night after a fatal snake bite, police said. Pastor Gregory Jamie Coots — the star of ...

FREER, Texas (Gray News) - A rattlesnake handler died over the weekend in Texas while handling a snake during a show at the Freer Rattlesnake Roundup event. Eugene Roberto DeLeon, 60, was bitten by a ...

May 30, 2012 -- A "serpent-handling" West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man had apparently watched a snake kill his father years before. ...