Panhandle Boy Hospitalized After Being Struck by a Rattlesnake

A five year old boy is in stable condition after being bit by a rattlesnake at a school outside of Amarillo. Authorities say the 5-year-old boy was playing in the school's soccer field when the snake attacked.

Don Wood, superintendent of the Bushland school district located just outside of Amarillo, says that the kindergartner was terrified, but in stable condition thanks to paramedics. Paramedics stabilized the child and transported him to Northwest Texas Hospital.

The Amarillo Globe-News reports that after the attack, a school secretary found the snake and prevented it from escaping. Then, Wood says, a school custodian got a broom and "whacked the snake to death."