Heartbreaking photos emerged Tuesday of the Florida woman fatally mauled by an alligator while hiking with her boyfriend over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Brittany Clark, 31, was seen smiling in a sleek red slip dress just months before Sunday\u2019s trip turned tragic when the couple went for a swim in the Econlockhatchee River at Little Big Econ State Forest.<\/p>\n
A giant, 12-foot gator lunged from water and clenched its jaws onto Clark as she was in just three feet of water, ripping one arm \u201ccompletely off.\u201d according to officials<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were hiking and they just stopped to swim,\u201d Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesperson Chad Weber told reporters at a press conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was bitten on both of her arms. The boyfriend was the one that made the phone call. He was trying to get her from the alligator\u2019s mouth, and on the way to the hospital she did pass away from her injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her boyfriend, identified by the Daily Mail as Chance Allison, desperately tried to fight off the beast.<\/p>\n
Allison heroically freed her arm, but the alligator instantly clamped onto her other arm.<\/p>\n
Frantic 911 audio captured Allison trying to stem catastrophic blood loss on the shore, her boyfriend screaming that both her arms had been severed.<\/p>\n
A woman described Clark\u2019s injuries as \u201chorrible,\u201d adding that \u201cone of her arms is completely off and the other one is like attached barely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBad, real bad please, hurry\u2026 she\u2019s losing a lot of blood\u2026 we need to stop the blood,\u201d said a distressed man on the 911 call.<\/p>\n
Wildlife officials have since euthanized and decapitated the alligator, keeping its head as evidence.<\/p>\n
Clark appeared to love the outdoors as her social media profiles were full of photos showing one adventure after another.<\/p>\n
The country girl with a creative fashion taste apparently worked as a dozer operator for years, and enjoyed going to raves outside of her professional life.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhysically I\u2019m at work headbanging in my dozer, but mentally I never left tinker field,\u201d Clark wrote in an Instagram post, which shows her adorned in vibrant clothing.<\/p>\n
Clark was passionate about her pets and was also an avid firearm enthusiast and motorcyclist, frequently showing photos of rifles, pistols and her motorcycle on her Instagram.<\/p>\n