{"id":50852,"date":"2026-10-17T15:44:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/florida-fisher-dragged-into-water-and-killed-by-12ft-alligator\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:44:58","slug":"florida-fisher-dragged-into-water-and-killed-by-12ft-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/florida-fisher-dragged-into-water-and-killed-by-12ft-alligator\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida fisher dragged into water and killed by 12ft alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hamilton was fishing in Winter Garden when he was attacked by gator, which was later killed<\/p>\n<p>A man fishing at a pond in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> was killed on Friday by an alligator that was almost 12ft long in a rare kind of animal attack, according to authorities and media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Hamilton, 71, was on the shoreline in the community of Winter Garden when the animal dragged him into the water, the Florida news outlet WOFL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/crews-respond-report-alligator-attack-winter-garden-park-officials-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, citing local police and the state\u2019s fish and wildlife conservation commission.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/17\/alligator-attack-florida-fisher-killed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Hamilton was fishing in Winter Garden when he was attacked by gator, which was later killed A man fishing at a pond in Florida was killed on Friday by an alligator that was almost 12ft long in a rare kind of animal attack, according to authorities and media reports. Steve Hamilton, 71, was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 12:18:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}