DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Daytona Beach police have released bodycam video from the night a man was attacked by an alligator on his doorstep.
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The man told Channel 9 he was barely out the door when the gator lunged at his leg.
The gator was found underneath Scott Hollingsworth’s trailer when police arrived.
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Hollingsworth said he had to shake the gator off his leg and stepped back inside to call for help.
At first, he didn’t believe it was an alligator.
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“You know, the back of the house we see them. We have a pond back there,” Hollingsworth said. “But they’re always in the water or they’re on the edge, the very edge of the grass. It came a long way out of the water, that we haven’t seen before.”
Hollingsworth was taken to the hospital for minor injuries from the gator bite.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission arrived shortly after Hollingsworth left and called a trapper to euthanize the gator.
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