FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — An 85-year-old woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a senior living community on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, officials said.
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The woman was walking her dog on Monday afternoon beside a canal in Spanish Lakes Fairway near Fort Pierce when the nearly 11-foot (3.3-meters) gator attacked the dog, St. Lucie Sheriff Ken Mascara said.
Video from Fort Pierce shows trappers wrangling the 10-foot alligator that killed an 85-year-old woman.
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A trapper from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission later tracked down the gator and deputies helped get it on a truck. It was taken from the scene.
“FWC is in charge of the investigation, however we assisted with a helicopter and manpower,” Mascara said.
The woman’s name has not been released. Officials said the dog survived the attack, but its condition wasn’t immediately known.
Fatal alligator attacks are rare, but they do happen. In 2016, 2-year-old Lane Graves was killed by alligator as he was vacationing with his family from Nebraska at Walt Disney World. Since then hundreds of gators have been relocated from the area.
Fort Pierce is about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of West Palm Beach.
They’re going to euthanize this wild animal with four legs. But when a wild animal with two legs does the same thing to a human being, all is ok. Go figure.
One more reason to stay out of Florida. Our Brooklyn alligator was only 4′ long. The have some huge gators in Florida.
and he’s smiling after doing such a horrible crime… horrible
If the gator attacked the dog, how was the woman killed? Dogs are commonly attacked by alligators since the gator recognizes it as prey. Rarely do they attack standing people; it’s not their regular fare. Once the dog is in the gator’s mouth, it can’t attack anything else. Maybe she had a heart attack?
One would think the management would see to the safety of its residents.
How did that alligator get into that pond?