The officials are confident they may have caught the reptile that responsible, shared Wiley.
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The investigation into the death of a two-year-old boy likely drowned by an alligator at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida is ongoing but is not a criminal case, a spokeswoman for the local sheriff’s office said on Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Lane Graves of Elk Horn, Nebraska.
The boy’s father fought the alligator – estimated to be between 1.2 to 2.1 meters long, according to reports – but the animal and child disappeared underwater, officials said. She screamed and everyone scattered. Witnesses said the attack happened in less than a minute. “On behalf of everyone at Disney, we offer our deepest sympathies”. He emphasized gators do not typically feed on humans.
According to the wildlife commission’s website, at least 23 people have been killed by Florida alligators since 1973. Last year, they removed more than 7,500 gators deemed to be a nuisance.
Lane Graves, was killed after a gator pulled him into the Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Tuesday night. Divers found the boy’s body on Wednesday afternoon, about 16 hours after authorities first got the call that a reptile had taken the him. There are “No Swimming” signs posted in the area, but no gator warnings. That has raised questions about whether the company did enough to convey the potential danger to visitors. “It’s not criminal in nature at this time”, she said, declining to provide further details on the probe. “There should be more warnings, maybe pictures along with the signs”, she told PEOPLE. A company representative said it would “thoroughly review the situation for the future”.
Jennifer Venditti, a mother from MA who was also visiting the Grand Floridian Resort, posted a Facebook status in which she expressed sympathy for the Graves family and explained that her own children had played very close to the area where Graves was snatched by the alligator. “Disney does an incredible, immaculate job of managing their parks, but I also keep in mind that Disney is a vast place, but too, it’s not impossible for a creature to make its way through the matrix, through that wilderness, into one of these lagoons”, animal expert Jeff Corwin said.
“We will definitely be back and have been talking about our next trip in October or November”, she said. “I can’t even believe”, she said.
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Nearly a third of Walt Disney World property is set aside as a conservation area, which attracts a variety of native wildlife including American alligators, according to Disney. “We don’t have alligators in Pennsylvania”.
