{"id":290042,"date":"2026-05-30T12:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290042\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:09:16","slug":"florida-officials-continue-search-for-alligator-that-attacked-woman-in-inverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/290042\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officials continue search for alligator that attacked woman in Inverness"},"content":{"rendered":"

INVERNESS, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A week after a woman survived an attack while swimming at an Inverness park, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said it is still searching for the alligator that bit her.<\/p>\n

Nikki Weber was enjoying Memorial Day Weekend<\/a> with her children at Wallace Brooks Park when an alligator latched onto her leg.<\/p>\n

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According to records from the Citrus County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the 911 caller could still see what they estimated to be an 8-foot gator swimming in the area after the attack.<\/p>\n

Weber\u2019s daughter secured a tourniquet around her leg to slow the bleeding, and she was rushed to the hospital for treatment. When Weber spoke to News Channel 8\u00a0on Tuesday, she said she still couldn\u2019t walk and has suffered severe nerve damage.<\/p>\n

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Since the attack on May 23, FWC has been searching the area of Lake Henderson to try to find the alligator that attacked her.<\/p>\n

Despite some circulating rumors that the gator had been located and trapped, FWC confirmed to News Channel 8 that the search for the \u201calligator of concern\u201d continues.<\/p>\n

However, trappers were at Lake Henderson on Thursday and removed two other nuisance alligators.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INVERNESS, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A week after a woman survived an attack while swimming at an Inverness park,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122647,28,8659,30,29,122649,115350,122648],"class_list":["post-290042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-citrus-county-sheriffs-office","tag-florida","tag-florida-fish-and-wildlife","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-inverness-park","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-nikki-weber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}