{"id":378773,"date":"2026-06-29T00:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:25:15","slug":"video-shows-crocodile-that-killed-puerto-vallarta-man-in-front-of-california-couple-as-new-details-emerge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/378773\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows crocodile that killed Puerto Vallarta man in front of California couple \u2014 as new details emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horrific new video shows the massive crocodile that killed a 28-year-old man<\/a> in Puerto Vallarta in front of a California couple.<\/p>\n

Grainy nighttime footage captured the huge reptile with its jaws open near Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa after the deadly attack.<\/p>\n

Horrific new video shows the massive crocodile that killed a 28-year-old man in Puerto Vallarta in front of a California couple. NoticiasPV<\/p>\n

The fatal incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday at Marina Vallarta Beach, with Jalisco state police identifying the victim only as a 28-year-old man from Mexico who had been in the resort town for work. NoticiasPV<\/p>\n

The fatal incident happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday at Marina Vallarta Beach, with Jalisco state police identifying the victim only as a 28-year-old man from Mexico who had been in the resort town for work.<\/p>\n

His body was recovered about 12 hours later early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Jamie Yetter, her fianc\u00e9 Chris Bury and her teenage daughter were staying at the hotel and relaxing by the pool when they heard screams coming from the beach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we saw a guy stuck in a rip current, so Chris took off down to the water, and I ran right after him,\u201d Yetter said.<\/p>\n

Bury jumped into a kayak without paddles in a desperate attempt to reach the man.<\/p>\n

Grainy nighttime footage captured the huge reptile with its jaws open near Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa after the deadly attack. NoticiasPV<\/p>\n

Jamie Yetter, her fianc\u00e9 Chris Bury and her teenage daughter were staying at the hotel and relaxing by the pool when they heard screams coming from the beach. NBC<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were no oars. There was really nothing at the beach at all to help. We were just scrambling, trying to do what we could,\u201d Bury said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was on the kayak right when he got pulled under.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite the Orange County family\u2019s efforts, they were unable to save the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t tell anyone it was dangerous,\u201d Yetter told Surfer.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

Yetter said signs near the beach warned of jellyfish, stingrays and crocodiles in the water, but her family initially mistook the crocodile symbol for an iguana. NBC<\/p>\n

She explained signs near the beach warned of jellyfish, stingrays and crocodiles in the water, but her family initially mistook the crocodile symbol for an iguana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t tell us we shouldn\u2019t go swimming. Even the next morning, I went down to the ocean. I assumed the beach would be closed. The beach wasn\u2019t closed. There were no no-swimming signs,\u201d Yetter added.<\/p>\n

By Saturday morning, beachgoers had returned to the same stretch of shoreline, with families once again swimming in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horrific new video shows the massive crocodile that killed a 28-year-old man in Puerto Vallarta in front of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61089,1785,7,9,8,153224,339,20469,4182,2457,611,3586],"class_list":["post-378773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-animal-attacks","tag-beaches","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crocodiles","tag-death","tag-marriott","tag-metro","tag-mexico","tag-orange-county","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}