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Sources are reporting that Jamie Coots, a snake handling preacher in Middlesboro, Kentucky has died. The star of a reality show about snake handling died after being bitten by a snake.
Andrew Hamblin preaches while holding a snake above his head, LaFollette, Tenn.
Ciaran Flannery/NGT
The Middlesboro Police Department said that at around 8 p.m., they responded to a possible snake bite at the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus [sic] Name church, but that its pastor, the star of the National Geographic Channel’s Snake Salvation, Jamie Coots, had already left the scene by the time they arrived.
EMS responders then went to Coots’s home, where he was found suffering from what they believed was a snake bite. They attempted to administer treatment, but Coots refused on account of his belief that God would not allow him to die from a snake bite. MOREHERE
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