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Veteran Texas Snake Handler Dies After Getting Bit At Rattlesnake Show 안전놀이터
More liberated, Texas — A diamondback overseer kicked the bucket after he was nibbled by a snake at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas on Saturday.

Eugene De Leon Sr., 60, of the Snake Busters Snake Handlers in Freer, around 100 miles north of San Antonio, was chomped by a diamondback while performing at the yearly show Saturday evening. The nibble came four years after his child, Eugene De Leon, was chomped by a two-foot long poisonous snake within his left thumb.

De Leon was a veteran snake controller, however an individual from the Freer Volunteer Fire Department and a caretaker for Freer High School, as per his tribute.

Eugene De Leon, 60, of the Snake Busters Snake Handlers in Freer kicked the bucket after he was chomped by a snake while performing at the yearly show Saturday evening.

"The affection and devotion he showed for his local area was seen consistently from being an individual from the Freer Vol. Local group of fire-fighters to being a summon for neighborhood inhabitants to help with eliminating snakes from their property," the Freer Chamber of Commerce said. "He was generally prepared to help. We will always remember his energy during Roundup time, from doing interviews with TV channels to showing up on broadcast Wildlife shows, he did everything."

De Leon was taken to a Corpus Christi clinic, where he later passed on from his wounds.

Eugene De Leon, 60, of the Snake Busters Snake Handlers in Freer passed on after he was chomped by a snake while performing at the yearly show Saturday evening.

De Leon's sister, Monica Dimas, took to Facebook on Sunday to fund-raise for her sibling's memorial service costs.

"I ask that you keep my mother, Evalina Morgan, and family in supplication as my sibling has acquired his wings today doing what he adored doing," Dimas said. "He had an energy for snake taking care of at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Freer...After numerous long stretches of dealing with these things today was not your day with them... Find happiness in the hereafter my sibling."