A woman’s chilling final words have been disclosed by her boyfriend after a fatal alligator attack occurred in Florida, resulting in her passing at the age of 31.
Brittany Clark was enjoying a paddle in the Econlockhatchee River on Sunday, June 28, in Florida. She was accompanied by her boyfriend, Chance Allison, and her best friend, Jayden Hernandez, when the tragic incident unfolded.
After hiking in the mountains, the trio decided to take a refreshing dip in the water. However, shortly afterward, Clark was viciously attacked by an alligator, which severed both her arms.
Chance struggled to free her arms from the alligator’s grasp as he urgently called 911, but unfortunately, Clark was declared dead at the scene.
In the aftermath of the horrific incident, her grieving boyfriend has shared her ‘last words’ spoken to him just before her passing.
In an interview with the New York Post, Chance shared: “While we were waiting for emergency services to arrive Brittany just told me to make sure I took care of Hokie [her German Shepherd].
“I can’t recall anything else.”
Chance mentioned that the 13-foot alligator emerged ‘out of absolutely nowhere’, adding: “We were smiling and talking and then it was complete chaos.”
In a heart-wrenching emergency call obtained by NBC News, her friend Hernandez is heard stating: “OK, both her arms, both her arms, both her arms are off, like, basically.
“One of them is, like, very hanging on by a thread, and the other was off.”
Her roommate had earlier mentioned that the group had joked about the possibility of an alligator lurking in the shallow waters.
In a Facebook post earlier this week, she wrote: “There were air bubbles within our little triangle we made with our bodies in the water and I commented on how it might be a sneaky gator and Chance, Brittany’s boyfriend, swam right over it to show nothing was there, and nothing was there.
“Britt literally commented on how she thought he was gonna act like he got attacked and we just laughed because he would never do that because he’s an amazing person.
“And just a few minutes later my best friend got attacked.”
She recounted that waiting for emergency services ‘felt like eternity’, although they only waited 12 minutes.
Hernandez remembered Clark as ‘one of the strongest, care-free, feral, hardworking, most loving, and selfless’ individuals she had ever encountered.