A snake-handling pastor who appeared on a National Geographic television reality show has died after being bitten by a snake. Jamie Coots was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake during a weekend church service in Kentucky. After the bite, he dropped the snakes, but then picked them back up and continued on. Rev Coots went home before emergency workers got to the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro.
The emergency workers then went to his house, but he refused medical treatment on grounds that he believed in faith healing, and declined to be taken to hospital.
When the emergency workers returned about an hour later, he was dead from a venomous bite, Middlesboro police said.
Rev Coots, a 42-year-old Pentecostal preacher, had recently been featured on the National Geographic show Snake Salvation.
His son, Cody, told local station WBIR-TV that the pastor had been bitten eight times before, but never had such a severe reaction and expected Saturday's bite to be like the others.
"We're going to go home, he's going to lay on the couch, he's going to hurt, he's going to pray for a while and he's going to get better," Cody Coots said.
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