Seville, FL – A hunter is on the mend after a large alligator bit him in the leg during a legal hunt in Volusia County.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says paramedics took 52-year-old Kemp Galleneau to Florida Hospital DeLand following the Sunday morning incident near Lake George.
According to the incident report, a 911 call was made from Pine Island Marina on Lake George Road in Seville around 9:45am.
FWC spokesman Greg Workman says Galleneau was aboard a boat trying to harpoon the gator when he fell overboard and that’s when the gator – believe to be around 10 to 12 feet long – bit his left calf.
Workman added that Galleneau had a legal tag to go alligator hunting and that the gator was already alongside the boat when Galleneau fell overboard.
Galleneau has been treated and released from the hospital with a possible broken leg and puncture holes in his calf made by the alligator’s teeth.
The alligator was caught and killed by a trapper on scene after Galleneau managed to get back onto the boat.
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