the late 22-year-old burglar Matthew Riggins
A suspected burglar jumped in a Florida lake apparently hiding from law enforcement before an 11-foot alligator killed him, investigators said Monday. His hand and foot reportedly turned up inside the animal’s stomach.
Brevard County Sheriff’s Maj. Tod Goodyear says 22-year-old Matthew Riggins told his girlfriend he would be in Barefoot Bay to commit burglaries with another suspect. Authorities received calls Nov. 13 about two suspicious men in black walking behind homes and investigated. Riggins was reported missing the next day.
Goodyear said sheriff’s divers recovered Riggins’ body 10 days later in a nearby lake, and that the injuries suggested the alligator had pulled him below the surface. “He hid in the wrong place,” resident Laura Farris told Bay News 9.
Authorities said Riggins drowned and the alligator, which behaved aggressively toward divers, was trapped and euthanized.
the late 11-foot (3.35 m.) alligator resident of Barefoot Bay who ate him.
T. Shaw
Good alligator! How much money did it save Florida taxpayers?
Instead of killing the heroic reptile, they could have fed it a clock so people could hear it approach.
Steven Wilson
If they had deputized the alligator…BTW I saw this beast referred to a croc in one reference to this incident and one look at the photograph shows he definitely wasn’t a crock.
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