Officials said the woman killed by an alligator in South Carolina on Aug. 20 was trying to protect her dog from the gator.
In a statement on Aug. 20, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call at around 9:30 a.m. that someone was attacked by an alligator near the Sea Pines Plantation, a resort community on Hilton Head Island. Deputies then saw a body in a nearby lagoon.
