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00:05 A massive alligator was caught Friday carrying the lifeless body of a Floridian down a canal.
00:11 A witness first spotted the 14-foot reptile with its victim clenched between its jaws
00:15 on a residential street in Largo, a small community just 4 miles south of Clearwater.
00:20 "I could tell there was a body in his mouth, so I started recording," witness Jamarcus
00:25 Bullard told Spectrum Bay News 9.
00:27 Bullard, who was on his way to a job interview, alerted the Largo Fire Department, which was
00:32 stationed just steps away from the gory scene.
00:36 Emergency personnel quickly pulled the gator from the water and shot it a few times, Bullard
00:40 said.
00:41 "A lot of my neighbors were out here, and they're the ones that told me about the gator,"
00:45 area resident Jennifer Dean told the outlet.
00:47 "While we were standing here we heard a shot, I assume they killed the gator."
00:52 The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office confirmed that both the victim and the gator were yanked
00:56 from the canal, but refused to say whether they were the ones who pulled the trigger.
01:01 At the scene, investigators were standing next to the bloody gator, which appeared to
01:05 be at least 10 feet in length.
01:07 The area is near the popular Ridgecrest Park, which includes a 5-acre lake known to house
01:12 alligators.
01:13 The gators routinely wander the neighborhood, according to Dean, but the one killed Friday
01:17 was one of the biggest she ever encountered.
01:21 Investigators are still trying to determine the Floridian's cause of death.
01:24 The Florida State University Extension Office of Education and the Florida Department of
01:25 Education are working to determine the cause of death.
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