Alligator Bites Off The Arm Of A Florida Man Fleeing Police

Alligator Bites Off The Arm Of A Florida Man Fleeing Police

Alligator bites off the arm of a Florida man fleeing police
TAMPA, Fla. A Florida man was hospitalized after an alligator chomped off his hand and forearm as he sought to elude authorities by operating right into a lake, police said on Thursday.
Jessie Kingsinger, 21, was missing three-quarters of his left arm when he crawled out of the lake in a wooded space behind an condo advanced, mentioned Sergeant Gary Gross, a spokesman for the Lakeland Police Department.
He apparently had run into the water as authorities looked for him on Wednesday evening, after his mom requested for assist getting him to a medical facility for psychiatric analysis.
"We anticipate it had just happened, seconds earlier than he crawled out, otherwise he would have bled out immediately," Gross said in a telephone interview.
Kingsinger was hospitalized for treatment of his accidents, together with an unspecified psychiatric difficulty, he said. Florida wildlife officers were searching for the alligator on Thursday.
A contact for Kingsinger couldn't immediately be reached for remark.
(Reporting by Letitia Stein; Enhancing by Marguerita Choy)
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