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Florida Police Identify Woman Killed by Massive Alligator

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The woman’s body was found floating in a canal.

An alligator peeks its head out of the water.
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The Florida woman who met her fate in an alligator’s mouth has been identified, police said on Saturday. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office named Sabrina Peckham, 41, as the 14-foot gator’s victim and said in a statement her family had been notified. Police shot and killed the gator on Friday after it responded to a call about a body in a canal in Largo, a small Florida community. The New York Post reports that Peckham didn’t have a fixed address and had been fined $500 earlier this month for sneaking onto a county wetland in July, about a half mile from where she was found on Friday.

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