Heartbreaking Final Photos: Florida Hiker, 31, Killed and Dismembered by Alligator as Boyfriend Fought Desperately to Save Her
Heartbreaking photos emerged Tuesday of the Florida woman fatally mauled by an alligator while hiking with her boyfriend over the weekend.
Brittany Clark, 31, was seen smiling in a sleek red slip dress just months before Sunday’s trip turned tragic when the couple went for a swim in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest.
A giant, 12-foot gator lunged from water and clenched its jaws onto Clark as she was in just three feet of water, ripping one arm “completely off.” according to officials.
Brittany Clark, 31, was seen smiling in a sleek red slip dress just months before Sunday’s trip turned tragic when she killed by an alligator.Facebook/Brittany Clark
Haunting 911 audio revealed she lost both arms during the fatal attack.Facebook/Brittany Clark
“They were hiking and they just stopped to swim,” Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson Chad Weber told reporters at a press conference on Monday.
“She was bitten on both of her arms. The boyfriend was the one that made the phone call. He was trying to get her from the alligator’s mouth, and on the way to the hospital she did pass away from her injuries.”
Her boyfriend, identified by the Daily Mail as Chance Allison, desperately tried to fight off the beast.
Allison heroically freed her arm, but the alligator instantly clamped onto her other arm.
Frantic 911 audio captured Allison trying to stem catastrophic blood loss on the shore, her boyfriend screaming that both her arms had been severed.
Clark’s boyfriend, Chance Allison, was dragged underwater into a violent “death roll” as he attempted to save her.Facebook/Chance Allison
A woman described Clark’s injuries as “horrible,” adding that “one of her arms is completely off and the other one is like attached barely.”
“Bad, real bad please, hurry… she’s losing a lot of blood… we need to stop the blood,” said a distressed man on the 911 call.
Wildlife officials have since euthanized and decapitated the alligator, keeping its head as evidence.
Clark appeared to love the outdoors as her social media profiles were full of photos showing one adventure after another.
The country girl with a creative fashion taste apparently worked as a dozer operator for years, and enjoyed going to raves outside of her professional life.
“Physically I’m at work headbanging in my dozer, but mentally I never left tinker field,” Clark wrote in an Instagram post, which shows her adorned in vibrant clothing.
Clark was passionate about her pets and was also an avid firearm enthusiast and motorcyclist, frequently showing photos of rifles, pistols and her motorcycle on her Instagram.