A 69-year-old South Carolina woman was killed in an apparent alligator attack while walking her dog near a golf course on Hilton Head Island, police say
Authorities responded to a report of a possible alligator attack in the Spanish Wells neighborhood of Hilton Head Island and found the woman’s body at around 9:30 a.m. at the edge of a lagoon bordering a golf course, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The victim, who has not yet been identified, was a resident of the neighborhood, the sheriff’s office said. An autopsy will be conducted by the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office, the release said.
The attack marks the second fatal alligator attack in the county in less than a year, according to the sheriff’s office. In August 2022, an 88-year-old woman was killed by an alligator after she slipped into a pond while gardening in Sun City Hilton Head, an adult living community in the county, CNN previously reported. There are an estimated 5 million American alligators in the wild across 10 states in the Southeast and beyond – even in the southeastern tip of Oklahoma, CNN reported.
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