Terrifying video shows alligator attacking Florida woman
NEWSTerrifying video captures the moment a 10-foot-long alligator lunges at an 85-year-old woman in Florida — dragging her to her death as she tries to protect her dog from the beast.
The footage shows Gloria Serge standing with her leashed pooch along a lake outside Spanish Lakes Fairways, a retirement community in Fort Pierce.
The alligator is seen surfacing nearby and approaching the octogenarian, who moves away from the 700-pound monster.
Serge, who desperately tried to protect her pet from its massive jaws, was dragged underwater and killed in the shocking attack.
Carol Thomas
Neighborhood“It’s horrible for her family. It’s just horrible, horrible. And her friends, I spoke to a couple of her friends yesterday who are devastated.”
Neighbor Carol Thomas said that she tried to help Serge while speaking with 911.
Carol Thomas
Neighborhood“There is no way I could have gotten to her sooner.”
Alligator trapper Robert Lilly, who was called to catch the predator, said that “it was definitely a fight.”
Robert Lilly
Alligator trapper“[We] snagged him on the bottom. He never surfaced. He stayed down the whole time.”
Robert Lilly
Alligator trapper”We were able to get a second hook in him and a hard line in him so we could get him up.”