Boyfriend desperately performed CPR on hiker killed after Florida alligator’s ‘death roll’: medical report
The monstrous alligator that killed Florida hiker Brittany Clark clamped onto her arm and launched into a vicious “death roll” before her determined boyfriend wrestled her from its crushing jaws, dragged her to shore and desperately performed CPR, according to a medical report.
Clark was swimming in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest Sunday when a 13-foot gator chomped down on her arm and twisted into a savage “death roll” — the terrifying spinning attack used to drown or tear apart prey, the medical examiner’s report obtained by the Palm Beach Post said.
The 31-year-old’s boyfriend, Chance Allison, rushed to wrestle the massive reptile off his girlfriend, but the alligator dragged them both beneath the water.
Clark, an Orlando construction worker, was briefly freed before the gator latched onto her other arm.
It wasn’t until Allison hauled them both to shore that the beast finally released her, the report said.
Allison desperately performed CPR on the riverbank in a last-ditch effort to save Clark as a frantic 911 call went out, according to the report.
Shocking audio from the panicked 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 victim 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.
The agency has since captured and killed two alligators, measuring 13 feet and 12.5 feet, as part of their investigation.
A FWC spokesman previously told The Post: “Serious injuries caused by alligators are rare in Florida.”
Between 1948 and 2025, the FWC recorded a total of 500 unprovoked bites in Florida, of which 32 resulted in fatalities, Click Orlando reported.
