The story is short on details. Were the 5 and 7 year old boys in the home alone? Couldn’t at least one of them scream to whatever adult was watching them, or maybe the snake got them in the middle of the night? Just terrible.
Python kills owner when she tried to medicate it
“Medicate Diablo.”
The message, scrawled on a whiteboard, referred to Amanda Ruth Black’s pet python. A few feet away, its container was empty. On the floor, Black, 25, lay dead.
Black’s husband had returned to their townhouse, on Maracas Arch in the Witchduck Woods area, late Tuesday night and called police after finding his wife’s body, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.
A preliminary autopsy showed that Black died of asphyxiation by neck compression. The 13-foot-long tiger reticulated python apparently overpowered her as she tried to administer medication to it, Bernstein said.