Hurricane Ida is blamed for at least four deaths including an alligator attack that is suspected of killing a 71-year-old man.
Hurricane Ida is blamed for at least four deaths including an alligator attack that is suspected of killing a 71-year-old man. The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office stated it was opening an investigation into “an apparent alligator attack” that occurred on Monday around noon. A resident in Slidell, Louisiana contacted the sheriff’s office when her husband “was attacked and apparently killed by an alligator while walking in flood waters following Hurricane Ida,” according to a press release from the office. “She told deputies she was inside her residence when she heard a commotion and went outside to see a large alligator attacking her husband,” the release reads. “She immediately ran to her husband’s aide in an attempt to stop the attack. Once the attacked stopped, she pulled her husband out of the flood waters, and returned inside to gather first aide supplies.
