A mother was mauled to death by a pack of dogs that attacked her and her three children outside a Georgia middle school — just days before Mother’s Day.
The dogs descended on the family Thursday as they waited at a bus stop behind the Brooks County Middle School in Quitman, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Courtney Williams, 35, was found dead in a nearby yard.
“When deputies arrived, they encountered several aggressive dogs on the property,” the GBI said.
Her children were rushed to the hospital with injuries, with her son suffering several lacerations from facing down the dogs in an attempt to save his little sister’s life, according to family.
“Kayden push sissy out of harm’s way by doing so he saved her but took on the dogs himself,” Williams’ sister-in-law Crystal Cox said on Facebook.
She shared several graphic images, showing that the boy suffered several deep wounds to his arms, legs and head.
Williams’ other son rushed into the school as the dogs attacked his family and flagged down a man — who Cox called “an angel” — who helped fight the dogs off the boy and rushed them to the hospital.
Kayden was “hurt pretty bad,” Cox said, but all three are now recovering at her home.
It’s not clear what breed of dogs the bloodthirsty hounds were, but neighbors told WALB that they had been complaining about the need for animal control in the area for some time.
“People dump dogs all over the county and no one can get help with them because there’s no county animal control. Praying for this woman’s family. This is so sad,” one resident told the outlet.
Another lamented on the timing of the tragedy — just three days before Mother’s Day.
”I do feel for the family and for the kids because now they are going to have to celebrate Mother’s Day without their mother,” she said.
The GBI is conducting an autopsy to determine William’s official cause of death.
