TITUSVILLE, Fla. (near Cape Canaveral)— A 72-year-old Brevard County man is recovering from a gator attack. He lost his right leg from the knee down Friday afternoon when the gator got a hold of him from a canal near his Titusville home.
Florida Fish and Wildlife officials trapped and killed two gators after the attack at the Great Outdoors RV and Golf Resort on Windsong Way in Brevard County. The call came in just before 2 p.m. reporting the attack in the sprawling 2,800-acre Great Outdoors RV and Golf resort near Titusville.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and Brevard County sheriff’s deputies were tracking a gator in a canal with rifles near where the attack took place.
Then an alligator with a human foot clearly protruding from the end of his mouth could be seen skimming the water’s surface.
At least four shots were fired, followed by a great deal of blood in the water. After that, an FWC officer retrieved a foot and part of the leg.
Then the officers pulled a gator onshore, and later a second gator was killed as well. Both of them, one larger than the other, were loaded into the back of an FWC pickup truck and hauled off the scene.
The victim was airlifted from near The Great Outdoors to the Holmes Regional Medical Center down in Melbourne.
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