An alligator is seen on the Everglades National Park, Fla. On Friday, a gator was reportedly noticed with human stays in its mouth in a canal in Largo, Florida.

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An alligator is seen on the Everglades National Park, Fla. On Friday, a gator was reportedly noticed with human stays in its mouth in a canal in Largo, Florida.

Alan Diaz/AP

A big alligator was killed by officers after it was seen with human stays in its mouth within the Tampa Bay space of Florida.

Jamarcus Bullard stated he witnessed the horrific scene in a canal in unincorporated Largo earlier than reporting the sighting to authorities on Friday, native station WFLA reported.

When the scene turned ugly, Bullard hit report on his cellphone.

“I threw a rock at the gator just to see if it was really a gator and like it pulled the body, like it was holding on to the lower part of the torso, and pulled it under the water,” Bullard informed the TV station.

The 13-foot-8.5-inch male alligator was “humanely killed” and faraway from the water, with help from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office stated in a news release.

The sheriff’s workplace has recognized the deceased individual as 41-year-old Sabrina Peckham.

The method and reason for dying is pending and the investigation is ongoing, officers stated in an replace on Saturday.

It’s not but identified whether or not the alligator killed Peckham. But latest high-profile alligator assaults on people have left some Floridians on edge. In February, an alligator killed an 85-year-old woman in Fort Pierce whereas she was attempting to save lots of her canine. Two weeks later, a man survived a bite after opening his entrance door to a gator.

Still, it is extraordinarily uncommon for alligators to assault people when unprovoked, Frank Mazzotti, a professor of Wildlife Ecology on the University of Florida informed NPR earlier this yr.

“When you go to the water’s edge you are in much more danger of drowning than you are of being bitten by an alligator,” Mazzotti stated.