Alligator kills Texas man during late-night swim
ORANGE, Texas -- A man has died after an alligator attacked him during a late-night swim at a Southeast Texas marina.
Police in Orange, near the state line with Louisiana, say the unidentified 28-year-old man was swimming in a bayou early Friday morning when the attack occurred.
Orange County sheriff's deputies and a Texas game warden found his body nearby about two hours later.
Police said the man was swimming with a woman, but Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told CBS affiliate KFDM-TV in Beaumont that she only jumped from a dock after the man screamed for help.
Witnesses told KFDM-TV that the man and woman had been at a bar at the marina before the fatal attack.
Price says a sign warns people not to swim in the area and that the man was bitten soon after he jumped in.
The woman was not hurt.
Gator Country owner Gary Saurage told KFDM-TV that it was the first fatal alligator attack in Texas that he knows of this year.