Shaking tambourines in the background during a live rattlesnake show.
Reality show snake handler dies from snakebite
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:32PM EST
MIDDLESBORO, Ky. -- Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show "Snake Salvation," died Saturday after being bitten by a snake.
Coots was handling a rattlesnake during a Saturday night service at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bitten, another preacher, Cody Winn, told WBIR-TV.
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