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DELTONA -- A Volusia County sheriff's deputy is hospitalized in serious but stable condition after being bitten by an 8-foot-long alligator he was trying to subdue in a parking lot.
Authorities say Deputy Keith Baughman responded to a call late Thursday about an alligator roaming around the Deltona apartment complex. Witnesses say the deputy put a towel over the gator's head, jumped onto its back and tried to grab its snout.
One witness says the alligator "went crazy," throwing off Baughman and biting him on the leg.
Authorities say another deputy repeatedly shot at the gator to stop it. The animal was hit but not killed.
Baughman suffered injuries to his left thigh and knee.
A state trapper eventually caught and killed the gator.







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