Woman killed by feral hogs outside Texas home: ‘One of the worst things I had ever seen’

Adrianna Rodriguez | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption Woman attacked, killed by group of feral hogs outside Texas home 59-year-old Christine Rollins was attacked and killed by a group of feral hogs outside of the Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.

A woman was attacked and killed by a group of feral hogs Sunday morning outside the southeastern Texas home where she worked as a caretaker, authorities said.

Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said in a press conference Monday that Christine Rollins, 59, arrived around 6 or 6:30 a.m. when she was attacked at the Anahuac home, 40 miles east of Houston.

The 84-year-old woman who has been under her care for almost two years went outside and found Rollins in the front yard between her car and the front door, Hawthorne told reporters.

The sheriff said Rollins had a severe head wound and several other injuries consistent with different size bites, indicating multiple animals were involved.

Hawthorne said detectives are still trying to determine whether Rollins fell because of a medical condition, and whether the fall caused her head injury, or whether the animals made her fall.

“In my 35 years, it was one of the worst things I had ever seen,” Hawthorne said about the scene.

The coroner in neighboring Jefferson County ruled Monday that Rollins bled to death after an attack by feral hogs.

Hawthorne told reporters that feral hogs have been a problem in the county and throughout the state of Texas. But incidents like this are rare.

“Just from what little research we have found, there is less than six of these that have been reported in the nation over the very many years in reporting these kind of deaths," he said.

Contributing: Associated Press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.