Alligator Kills 69-Year-Old Woman in South Carolina
A 69-year-old woman was attacked and killed by an alligator on Tuesday as she was walking her dog in her neighborhood in Hilton Head Island, S.C., the authorities said.
The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said it was the second fatal alligator attack in the county in less than a year.
The woman who was killed on Tuesday was found at the edge of a lagoon in Spanish Wells, a residential community in Hilton Head Island. She had left her home around 7 a.m. to walk her dogs, and relatives went looking for her when the dogs returned without her, said Maj. Angela Viens, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
A family member spotted her and contacted emergency services around 9:30 a.m. As emergency medical workers were trying to revive the woman, who was unresponsive, “an alligator appeared and was guarding the woman, interrupting emergency efforts,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Source: The New York Times
