Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ROCKPORT, Texas (KRIS) - Stung by 300 killer bees.
It sounds like the stuff of horror movies, but it happened to one Texas woman earlier this month.
Matthew Roberts spoke to Rachel Kelly-McKee about her ordeal.
This is surveillance video captured by a camera at the Goose Island Park Storage.
McKee was in her storage unit with her German shepherd, Chelsea, who McKee says loves to come out to the units with her.
But right by Chelsea is the very tree that more than 300 bees came out of, and McKee says it could have been Chelsea that provoked the bees.
Rachel Kelly-McKee/Stung by bees: "And she came in, and I noticed she had a few bees on her. And so I said, you know, I thought they were honeybees. I said, 'Don't bring the bees in here,' you know."
But little did McKee know it was more than just a few bees.
Rachel Kelly-McKee: "The minute we cleared that door, I was just absolutely inundated. And so she ran one way and I ran the other way. I ran all around here just swatting and trying to get them off of me and screaming."
This automatic gate is what stopped McKee from being able to get away.
It can only be activated by a car, not a human.
The owner of the storage units opened the gate remotely when he saw what was going on.
And it was then that Deputy Will Newsom with the Aransas County Sheriff's Office and the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene and sprung into action.
Dep. Will Newsom/Aransas County Sheriff's Office: "My plan was to roll up and get her into the back compartment of my car and then extricate her from the scene and move her down to Lamar Fire Station, where we could get medical attention."
And without his call to action, the situation could have been fatal.
Dep. Will Newsom: "I mean, one bee sting can be fatal to some people. She took over 300 stings, which is definitely in the fatal range. So I, I knew that we had a limited amount of time to be able to get her out of the situation, get her to medical care."
Africanized bee stings aren't more toxic than regular honeybee stings, but the bees react to disturbances faster and attack in greater numbers.
They've also been known to chase people up to a quarter-mile.
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ROCKPORT, Texas (KRIS) - Stung by 300 killer bees.
It sounds like the stuff of horror movies, but it happened to one Texas woman earlier this month.
Matthew Roberts spoke to Rachel Kelly-McKee about her ordeal.
This is surveillance video captured by a camera at the Goose Island Park Storage.
McKee was in her storage unit with her German shepherd, Chelsea, who McKee says loves to come out to the units with her.
But right by Chelsea is the very tree that more than 300 bees came out of, and McKee says it could have been Chelsea that provoked the bees.
Rachel Kelly-McKee/Stung by bees: "And she came in, and I noticed she had a few bees on her. And so I said, you know, I thought they were honeybees. I said, 'Don't bring the bees in here,' you know."
But little did McKee know it was more than just a few bees.
Rachel Kelly-McKee: "The minute we cleared that door, I was just absolutely inundated. And so she ran one way and I ran the other way. I ran all around here just swatting and trying to get them off of me and screaming."
This automatic gate is what stopped McKee from being able to get away.
It can only be activated by a car, not a human.
The owner of the storage units opened the gate remotely when he saw what was going on.
And it was then that Deputy Will Newsom with the Aransas County Sheriff's Office and the Lamar Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the scene and sprung into action.
Dep. Will Newsom/Aransas County Sheriff's Office: "My plan was to roll up and get her into the back compartment of my car and then extricate her from the scene and move her down to Lamar Fire Station, where we could get medical attention."
And without his call to action, the situation could have been fatal.
Dep. Will Newsom: "I mean, one bee sting can be fatal to some people. She took over 300 stings, which is definitely in the fatal range. So I, I knew that we had a limited amount of time to be able to get her out of the situation, get her to medical care."
Africanized bee stings aren't more toxic than regular honeybee stings, but the bees react to disturbances faster and attack in greater numbers.
They've also been known to chase people up to a quarter-mile.
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