A man from Florida was attacked by a nine-foot alligator on his doorstep, leaving him shocked and bleeding.
Scott Hollingsworth heard a noise outside his home in Daytona Beach around 9:40 pm on Saturday night and opened the front door to investigate.
He found ‘something grabbed me on the leg and started shaking violently,’ which he initially assumed was a dog.
After getting a better look, he realized he had been attacked by a huge alligator, which he estimated to be about ‘six feet or seven feet’ long.
Hollingsworth sustained a large gash on his leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery, but luckily had only non-life-threatening injuries.
Wildlife officials later euthanized the nine-foot alligator, which was still found near the front of Hollingsworth’s house.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission called an agency trapper for the purpose.
Two weeks earlier, an 85-year-old woman from Fort Pierce, Florida, was killed by an alligator that had stalked her from a pond at a retirement community in St Lucie.
The alligator had mauled to death the woman, identified as Serge, while she was trying to rescue her dog, Trooper, from its jaws.
The dog survived, but the alligator was later caught and euthanized.
Serge was the third victim to be killed by an alligator in the state since July 2022.
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