Wildlife authorities have killed an alligator that attacked an 11-year-old
boy this afternoon in Slidell and have recovered the boy's arm from inside
the alligator.
St. Tammany Sheriff's Office officials say a boy and two girls were
swimming in a lake behind the Kingspoint subdivision when an alligator
attacked an 11-year-old boy and bit his arm off at the shoulder.
Sheriff's spokesman Captain George Bonette says deputies working in the
subdivision ran a mile to get to the boy and get him out of the water.
They pulled the boy out of water, and is being airlifted to Ochsner
Hospital in the New Orleans.
Officials have hooked and killed the alligator, and have recovered the
boy's arm, and are rushing the arm to the hospital.