Reality-Show Snake-Handling Pastor Dies -- From Snake Bite
A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about handling snakes during church services, died Saturday night after a fatal snake bite, police said.
Pastor Gregory Jamie Coots — the star of the National Geographic Channel’s “Snake Salvation” — died at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name in Middlesboro, Ky., after suffering a snake bite to his finger, Middlesboro police spokeswoman Jeannie Miller told NBC News on Sunday.
Coots was bitten at the church at 8:30 p.m. but died at his home two hours later, after refusing medical treatment “because of religious beliefs,” Miller said.
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Pastor Gregory Jamie Coots, the star of the National Geographic Channel’s “Snake Salvation,” died after he was fatally bitten by a snake Saturday night and refused treatment.
Ciaran Flannery / NGT
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