Newly released body camera footage shows the shocking moment a 14-foot-long bloated alligator is captured - with the body of a 41-year-old mum inside.The video from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission shows those first on the scene arrive at a canal in Largo, Florida.
Sensing it is a threat, they quickly shoot the creature dead with a rifle."Watch them, watch them," a voice can be heard shouting before the trigger is pulled with a bang.
Local Jamarcus Bullard was the first to come across the gruesome scene, alerting 911 when he saw a gator with what he believed were body parts in its mouth. "I noticed it had a body in its mouth, like a lower torso, so once I saw that, I ran straight to the fire department and got them.
They confirmed it was a body," Bullard said. Sabrina Peckham, 41, an unhoused woman who had been staying at a makeshift campsite less than 50 feet away from the canal in Pinellas County, was later identified as the victim.
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