The grief-stricken boyfriend who desperately tried to save Florida hiker Brittany Clark from the killer jaws of a massive alligator that ripped her arms apart said she didn’t deserve to die in such a horrific way.
“I’m just still in disbelief of what took place. We had so many things planned out and memories to be made,” the 31-year-old victim’s boyfriend, Chance Allison, wrote in an emotional Facebook post Wednesday — which included an array of photos of them together.
“You were such a special person and did not deserve to go out in such a way. I love you and don’t worry about shady and hokie I’ll take care of them forever,” he said about Clark’s cat and dog.
Allison, 30, explained that he’s working on arranging a “celebration of life” in her honor.
“Also thank you everyone for all the kind messages,” he wrote. “They really have helped me hold together just as much as I’m falling apart.”
Allison desperately fought to wrench Clark from the 13-foot gator after it clamped its jaws onto her while the couple and her roommate, Jayden Hernandez, were swimming in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest in Seminole County on Sunday, authorities said.
Shocking audio from the frantic 911 call obtained by The Post revealed details of the horror attack, with a woman describing Clark’s injuries as “horrible,” adding that “one of her arms is completely off and the other one is like attached barely.”
Clark can be heard crying in the background, as the dispatcher asks if her detached arm can be found.
The Orlando victim, a bulldozer operator, died on the way to the hospital from “multiple blunt force injuries of the upper extremities,” according to a medical examiner report obtained by The Times.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said that Clark did not appear to have done anything “malicious” to provoke the alligator, and had been swimming in “about three feet of water” at the time of the attack.
“A 13-foot alligator found at the incident location, and a 12.5-foot alligator half a mile away were captured and killed,” the FWC said in a statement.
“Samples from the alligators have been collected and the FWC’s investigation into this incident remains active.”
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