New information is being released about a gruesome alligator attack in Florida last month that left a woman dead.
A massive alligator knocked over a canoe with a married couple aboard, killing the wife after snatching her and dragging her under fresh water in Central Florida, state officials said.
The attack took place near the mouth of Tiger Creek near Lake Kissimmee in Polk County.
"An 11-foot, 4-inch alligator bit the woman and pulled her underwater," Hailee Seely, spokesperson for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) southwest region, told USA TODAY June 26.
The May 6 attack killed Cynthia Diekema, 61, of Polk County and part of the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro area.
