Sister Of Man Killed By Snake Speaks Out
Papillion, NE - The nine-foot, 25-pound boa constrictor that squeezed the life out of 35-year-old Cory Byrne also changed the lives of his family. Cory’s sister Kayla spoke to him in the hospital just before he died. “Still feels like a bad dream,” said Kayla Byrne. She promised that she would watch his children and then told Cory, she loved him.
Kayla tells Action 3 News Cory was just with her at their parent’s house on Sunday. He showed them where his snake bit him on the arm. The family told Cory they didn’t want that snake around him anymore. “Just told him to get rid of the darn thing,” said Kayla Byrne.
Friends and co-workers of Cory are also feeling the pain of loss. Debby Clark not only lived next door to him, but also worked with Cory at a local McDonalds and says they were friends. The news of his death hit her hard. “I couldn’t even sleep. Just trying to get the picture out of my head of what actually happened,” said Clark.
Kayla described what happened to her brother when the snake wrapped itself around his neck. She tells Action 3 News, Wednesday night he was showing the snake to a friend in his downtown apartment when it hissed. He quickly tried to take it off his shoulders to put it back in the cage and that’s when it got scared and naturally reacted by wrapping itself around Cory’s neck.
You play with fire, you get burned. Some people just learn it the hard way.
Darwin smiles.
“And that’s when his friend quickly escorted him to the bathroom, grabbed the snake’s head and plunged it into the toilet water and held it there until the snake let go.”.. Oh wait.. That didn’t happen.