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A Florida man is facing multiple murder charges after police found the body of his missing son inside the jaws of an alligator. NBC Miami reports Thomas Mosley, 21, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of the boy’s mother, 20-year-old Pashun Jeffery, and their 2-year-old son Taylen Mosley. St. Petersburg Police […]
A member at a South Carolina yacht club died this weekend after an alligator dragged them into a retention pond near Myrtle Beach. The Horry County Police Department announced the news on Friday via Facebook, revealing that the victim was “near the retention pond at the time of the initial incident” and that the alligator had “retreated into […]
A man in Florida was found dead after he decided to search for Frisbees in a lake with surrounding signs warning people to beware of alligators, CBS News reports. Largo Police Department confirmed via email Tuesday that “a gator was involved” in the death of an unidentified 47-year-old man in John S. Taylor Park. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission […]
A quick-thinking Florida woman was able to fight off an alligator after it latched onto her beloved dog during an otherwise uneventful walk. Suzan Marciano, 74, told regional outlet Palm Beach Post that she was walking her dog Nalu near a lake at Burt Aaronson Park late last month when the golden retriever mix—temporarily off […]
A man in Florida was flown to a nearby hospital on Monday after sustaining serious injuries from an alligator attack, which occurred after he fell from his bike, ABC News reports. The unidentified victim was riding his bike at Halpatiokee Regional Park in the city of Stuart when he fell off and landed far too close to a […]
Florida is known for being overridden by alligators. While these near-prehistoric creatures would frighten some, people in the Sunshine State have grown accustomed to their aquatic neighbors. This was on full display when a Florida man got into a wrestling match with a gator to save his puppy. Richard Willbanks and his dog, Gunner, were enjoying a day […]
Florida is a wild place and now one man can be a living example of this. Justin Stuller from Estero, Florida went to Florida Keys for a fishing trip, the Fort Myers News-Press reports. But things went left when he was attacked by an eight-foot lemon shark. “I put (the fish) in a hole, and right before I surfaced, […]
Saturn, an alligator who was the subject of an urban legend that claimed he was once Adolf Hitler’s pet, has died at (or around) the age of 84. He was living at the Moscow Zoo at the time of said death, which happened on Friday. Saturn, whose obituary is being published in many national outlets […]
A woman died after an apparent run-in with an alligator on a South Carolina island. On Friday at 5 p.m., deputies responded to a call on Kiawah Island of an “an alligator encounter with an adult female,” according to Capt. Roger Antonio, a spokesman for the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office. The Charleston Post and Courier […]
A baby alligator, heroin, cocaine, and guns were found in a stolen car Florida police were tracking. Authorities subsequently made an arrest. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said that a deputy checked on the car’s plates, found out it was stolen and followed it, NBC-affiliated WPTV reports. That’s when the pet alligator and drugs were discovered. […]
