Florida wildlife officials confirm 13-foot gator killed Orlando woman with 'death roll' on river

DNA from a Florida pistillate has been positively linked to the familial worldly of a monstrous 13-foot alligator captured aft a fatal stream onslaught past month, wildlife officials confirmed.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC), laboratory investigating confirmed DNA from Brittany Clark, 31, matched a 13-foot alligator captured aft the deadly onslaught connected the Econlockhatchee River connected June 28.

Clark, of Orlando, was swimming adjacent the Barr Street Trailhead successful the Little Big Econ State Forest erstwhile the battle happened. She was taken to a infirmary arsenic a trauma alert but died from her injuries connected the way, officials said.

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Brittany Clark was fatally attacked by an alligator successful the Econlockhatchee River, officials said. (Brittany Clark via Facebook)

According to a preliminary study from the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office obtained by Fox News affiliate WOFL-TV, Clark was swimming successful shoulder-deep h2o with her boyfriend, Chance Allison, and different person erstwhile the alligator grabbed her limb and began what investigators described arsenic a "death roll."

"[Allison] grabbed the alligator trying to get it to merchandise [Clark] … erstwhile it took them some underwater releasing [Clark] for a infinitesimal and past grabbing her different arm," the study said.

Once the alligator fto go, Allison brought Clark to enactment and called 911, the study said. Brief assemblage camera video captured a Seminole County lawman responding to the attack.

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Brittany Clark, whose decease prompted renewed warnings from Florida wildlife officials astir alligator safety, is shown successful an undated photo. (Brittany Clark via Facebook)

An alligator's "death roll" is erstwhile the reptile latches connected to imaginable prey and violently spins successful the h2o to subdue oregon dismember it, according to the National Institute of Health.

After the attack, FWC trappers captured and killed 2 immense alligators — 12.5-foot and 13-foot gators — and sent their DNA to a laboratory to find if either carnal was the 1 that killed Clark.

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Brittany Clark is pictured aboard a boat. Clark died aft an alligator attacked her portion she was swimming successful the Econlockhatchee River successful Central Florida, officials said. (Brittany Clark via Facebook)

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According to the FWC, wound marks recovered connected Clark's limb were accordant with the beforehand enactment teeth of the 13-foot alligator recovered astatine the river.

"The FWC’s probe into this incidental remains active," the bureau said.

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Serious alligator attacks stay rare

The FWC said superior injuries caused by alligators are uncommon successful Florida, though alligators tin beryllium recovered successful lakes, rivers, ponds and different freshwater bodies crossed each 67 counties.

Officials said they are not speculating astir what prompted the onslaught but noted that alligators tin go much territorial during their mating season, which typically runs from April done June.

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DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA - JUNE 27: An alligator populates the Wakodahatchee Wetlands connected June 27, 2022 successful Delray Beach, Florida. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

A fewer information recommendations for individuals coming into interaction with an alligator, according to the FWC: "Keep a harmless distance" and "keep pets connected a leash and distant from the water’s edge."

"Pets often lucifer alligators’ earthy prey," officials warned. "Swim lone successful designated swimming areas during daylight hours and without your pet. Alligators are astir progressive betwixt dusk and dawn."

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Also, "never provender an alligator; it’s amerciable and dangerous."

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"When fed, alligators tin suffer their earthy wariness and alternatively larn to subordinate radical with the availability of food," the FWC added. "This tin pb to an alligator becoming a nuisance and needing to beryllium removed from the wild."

People with concerns astir an alligator should telephone FWC’s toll-free Nuisance Alligator Hotline astatine  866-FWC-GATOR.  

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Fox News Digital's Eric Mack contributed to this report.