A 71-year-old man was fatally savaged by a 12-foot alligator while fishing on the shoreline in Florida on Friday afternoon. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission identified the victim as Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden, according to FOX35.
Steve Hamilton was fishing in Winter Garden when he was attacked by gator, which was later killed A man fishing at a pond in Florida was killed on Friday by an alligator that was almost 12ft long in a rare kind of animal attack, according to authorities and media reports.
A 71-year-old man fishing near the shore of a Florida lake has been killed by a nearly 12-foot alligator. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission reports that Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden was attacked near the shore of Lake Apopka in Dr. Bradford Memorial Park, northwest of Orlando.
A 71-year-old man fishing near the shore of a Florida lake has been attacked and killed by a 12-foot alligator. The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden was standing near the shoreline of Lake Apopka in Dr.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A 71-year-old Winter Garden man was killed in an alligator attack Friday, reportedly while fishing at the Dr. Bradford Memorial Park near Lake Apopka, police say.
A 71-year-old man was fatally attacked by an alligator while fishing at a Florida lake, marking the second such death in the state in 2026 and bringing the total alligator fatalities since 1948 to 34.
(AP) — A 71-year-old man fishing on the shore of a Florida lake was killed Friday by a nearly 12-foot alligator, the second fatal attack reported this year. Steven Hamilton of Winter Garden was standing on the shore of Lake Apopka at Dr.
Steven Hamilton was fishing at Lake Apopka in Winter Garden, Florida, when he was attacked in the second fatal alligator incident in the state this year.
A nearly 12-foot-long alligator took the life of a 71-year-old senior as he innocently fished along the shore of a lake in Florida near Orlando Friday afternoon.
ORLANDO — A 71-year-old Winter Garden man was killed in an alligator attack Friday, reportedly while fishing at the Dr. Bradford Memorial Park near Lake Apopka, police say. Winter Garden’s police and fire departments responded around 5 p.m.
Steven Hamilton died at Dr. Bradford Memorial Park, which connects directly to Lake Apopka — home to one of the largest and most dangerous alligator populations in Central Florida.
A 71-year-old fisherman was attempting to take a photo of himself and a fish when a large alligator came out of the water, bit his leg, and pulled him into the pond , where he drowned, according to the Orange County Medical Examiner's investigator report.
A fisherman proudly showed off his catch on the shoreline of a central Florida alligator-infested lake– before he was savaged by the 12-foot predator and submerged in the water.
A 13-foot alligator killed a woman swimming near her Florida home just four months ago. Now a nearly 12-foot gator has done the same thing to a 71-year-old man fishing along the banks of Lake Apopka. Steven Hamilton never made it home Friday evening – and rescuers couldn't even reach his body becaus…
A quiet fishing trip on the shore of Lake Apopka turned deadly when a nearly 12-foot alligator attacked and killed a 71-year-old Florida man, forcing rescuers to fight past more gators just to pull his body from the water.
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