Just found out this evening that someone was attacked and killed by an alligator on Kiawah Island just outside of Charleston yesterday. My wife's cousin and his wife live on Kiawah, and there was a lady at their house. The lady wanted to walk through their backyard down to the marsh, and while they warned her it could be dangerous, she went anyway.

They were watching from the house as she walked along the edge, and then a large alligator leapt out of the water and grabbed her by the leg. My wife's cousin is about 75, but he ran down there and tried to save her. They watched in horror as it dragged her into the marsh. Animal control did find it and kill it.

As you can imagine, they are pretty broken up about it. They had been talking about moving back to Charlotte. This may be the thing that makes that happen.