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Margaret Webb, 90, attacked by alligator

Licensed trapper Dave Regel, left, FWC Investigator Gregg Stastny, center, and Regel's daughter Jennifer Long, right, look under a wooden bridge after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff

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Licensed trapper Dave Regel, left, FWC Investigator Gregg Stastny, center, and Regel's daughter Jennifer Long, right, look under a wooden bridge after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff

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  • Licensed trapper Dave Regel and daughter Jennifer Long rake the ground with a hook after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Rescue first responders tend to Margaret Webb after she was attacked by an Alligator in her back yard on August 31, 2011. Caleb Morris/Special to the Daily News
  • Licensed trapper Dave Regel, left, FWC Investigator Gregg Stastny, center, and Regel's daughter Jennifer Long, right, look under a wooden bridge after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Steve Thompson, left, wipes his face as he watches trappers check the water in a canal in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Thompson said he was related to the woman attacked. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Rescue first responders tend to Margaret Webb after she was attacked by an Alligator in her back yard on August 31, 2011. Caleb Morris/Special to the Daily News
  • Licensed trapper Dave Regel and daughter Jennifer Long, left, rake the ground with a hook after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Rescue first responders tend to Margaret Webb after she was attacked by an Alligator in her back yard on August 31, 2011. Caleb Morris/Special to the Daily News
  • Relatives and friends gather at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Officers arrive at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Licensed trapper Dave Regel, left, FWC Investigator Gregg Stastny, left and Regel's daughter Jennifer Long look under a wooden bridge after arriving at the scene in Copeland off U.S. 29 where a 90-year-old woman was attacked by an alligator as she walked around her property on Wednesday, August 31, 2011. According to Florida Fish and Wildlife officers, Dwain Daniels, a passer-by, stopped when he saw the woman holding onto a tree branch as the alligator was dragging her into the water. Officers said he was able to shoot the alligator and free the woman. The woman lost part of her right leg in the attack, and was taken by med-flight to Lee Memorial Hospital. Greg Kahn/Staff
  • Margaret Webb was in her front yard near a canal when an alligator reported to be about eight feet long came up and bit her leg, FWCC Capt. Jayson Horadam said. She was pulled to safety by 30-year-old Dwain Daniels, who was driving by Webb's 25750 State Road 29 ranch house and saw Webb in the water.
  • Margaret Webb, right, embraces a friend during a worship service at Chokoloskee Church of God in 2006. Webb is in critical condition at Lee Memorial Hospital after being attacked by an alligator Wednesday on her property in rural Copeland. Daily News/File
  • After an alligator attacked Margaret Webb of Copeland in her front-yard canal Wednesday, the 90-year-old woman remains in critical condition Thursday morning after part of her leg was amputated.
  • Rescue first responders tend to Margaret Webb after she was attacked by an Alligator in her back yard on August 31, 2011. Caleb Morris/Special to the Daily News
  • Rescue first responders tend to Margaret Webb after she was attacked by an Alligator in her back yard on August 31, 2011. Caleb Morris/Special to the Daily News
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  • An alligator, suspected of being the same one that attacked 90-year-old Margaret Webb in Copeland on Wednesday, was captured on Monday by Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officials. The gator was found injured in Copeland with a bullet wound in its head - the same area where Webb's neighbor shot the attacking alligator. Photographed Sept. 5, 2011. Contributed by the FWC.
  • An alligator, suspected of being the same one that attacked 90-year-old Margaret Webb in Copeland on Wednesday, was captured on Monday by Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission officials. The gator was found injured in Copeland with a bullet wound in its head - the same area where Webb's neighbor shot the attacking alligator. Photographed Sept. 5, 2011. Contributed by the FWC.

Margaret Webb was in her front yard near a canal when an alligator reported to be about eight feet long came up and bit her leg, FWCC Capt. Jayson Horadam said. She was pulled to safety by 30-year-old Dwain Daniels, who was driving by Webb's 25750 State Road 29 ranch house and saw Webb in the water.

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