According to Captain Lance Vitter, Commander of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office Public Affairs Division, a Slidell woman told investigators, looking at the floodwaters from nearby Lake Pontchartrain, she saw her husband “in a death roll” with a 7-foot alligator. As she approached, the reptile abandoned its prey, allowing the 63-year-old woman to drag her bleeding husband onto the steps. She went inside for her first aid kit and returned before realizing one of his arms was missing.

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