Terrifying video captures the moment a 10-foot-long alligator lunges at an 85-year-old woman in Florida — dragging her to her death as she tries to guard her dog from the beast.
The footage obtained by Inside Edition shows Gloria Serge standing together with her leashed pooch Monday along a lake outside Spanish Lakes Fairways, a retirement community in Fort Pierce.
The alligator is seen surfacing nearby and approaching the octogenarian, who moves away from the 700-pound monster.
However the vicious reptile is just too fast and she or he only manages to walk a couple of feet before it scrambles out of the water and tries to attack the dog.
Serge, who desperately tried to guard her pet from its massive jaws, was dragged underwater and killed within the shocking attack.
Neighbor Carol Thomas told Inside Edition that she tried to assist Serge while speaking with 911.
“There’s a lady within the lake! The alligator’s got her!” Thomas tells the dispatcher. “I believe she’s gone. Oh my God!”
Thomas said she tried unsuccessfully to make use of a pole to attempt to pull Serge to safety.
“There isn’t a way I could have gotten to her sooner,” she told the outlet.
“It’s horrible for her family. It’s just horrible, horrible. And her friends, I spoke to a few of her friends yesterday who’re devastated.”
Alligator trapper Robert Lilly, who was called to catch the predator, said that “it was definitely a fight.”
“[We] snagged him on the underside. He never surfaced. He stayed down the entire time,” Lilly said.
”We were capable of get a second hook in him and a tough line in him so we could get him up.”
