The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating after an 85-year-old lady was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in Fort Pierce.It occurred round 12 p.m. Monday within the Spanish Lakes Fairways neighborhood.Neighbors say the 10-foot alligator lunged out of the water and grabbed her. The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office helicopter helped find the alligator. A short while later, trappers discovered it lurking on the backside of the lake and pulled it out. “He fought pretty good. Definitely fought pretty good,” Robert Lilly, Nuisance Alligator Trapper, mentioned. “Snagged him on the bottom. He never surfaced. He stayed down the whole time. Got a second hook in him and then a hard line in him so we could get him up.”Lilly mentioned the reptile weighed between 600 and 700 kilos. Trappers mentioned any nuisance gator over 4 toes lengthy might be legally faraway from a residential lake much like the one on this neighborhood. According to FWC, severe accidents triggered by alligators are uncommon within the state of Florida. “The FWC places the highest priority on public safety and administers a Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program (SNAP) to address complaints concerning specific alligators believed to pose a threat to people, pets or property,” the group mentioned in an announcement. The sufferer’s id has not been launched right now.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating after an 85-year-old lady was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in Fort Pierce.
It occurred round 12 p.m. Monday within the Spanish Lakes Fairways neighborhood.
Neighbors say the 10-foot alligator lunged out of the water and grabbed her.
The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office helicopter helped find the alligator. A short while later, trappers discovered it lurking on the backside of the lake and pulled it out.
“He fought pretty good. Definitely fought pretty good,” Robert Lilly, Nuisance Alligator Trapper, mentioned. “Snagged him on the bottom. He never surfaced. He stayed down the whole time. Got a second hook in him and then a hard line in him so we could get him up.”
Lilly mentioned the reptile weighed between 600 and 700 kilos.
Trappers mentioned any nuisance gator over 4 toes lengthy might be legally faraway from a residential lake much like the one on this neighborhood.
According to FWC, severe accidents triggered by alligators are uncommon within the state of Florida.
“The FWC places the highest priority on public safety and administers a Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program (SNAP) to address complaints concerning specific alligators believed to pose a threat to people, pets or property,” the group mentioned in an announcement.
The sufferer’s id has not been launched right now.