Woman Killed by Alligator in South Carolina Was Trying to Protect Dog

Law enforcement with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources take pictures of the site where authorities say Cassandra Cline was dragged into a lagoon by an alligator and killed while trying to save her dog on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Aug. 20, 2018. Drew Martin/The Island Packet via AP

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.