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ORLANDO, FL - JUNE 18: Newly installed signs warn of alligators and snakes on a closed section of beach following the death of a 2-year-old boy who was killed by an alligator near a Walt Disney World hotel on June 18, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Lane Graves, who was visiting Disney World with his family from Nebraska, died after he was pulled into the lagoon by an alligator on Tuesday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)(Photo: Spencer Platt)
The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>father of a 2-year-old boy killed in an alligator attack near Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando<span style="color: Red;">*</span>told an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>official that a second gator was involved in the attack.
The Orlando Sentinel,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>citing public records released last week, reported late Saturday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Capt. Tom Wellons of the Reedy Creek Fire Department told two supervisors about the revelation — it came during an<span style="color: Red;">*</span>interaction<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with the child's father, Matt Graves, the morning after Lane Graves went missing.
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Wellons said he told Graves he needed stitches and antibiotics, since he had lacerations from a gator's teeth, the Sentinel reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Wellons said that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on the way to the hospital, Graves shared "the horror that he experienced" as his son was being pulled into the water, and "how another gator attacked him as he fought for his son."
Assistant Chief Stan Paynter forwarded the e-mail to Orange County officials to alert them that there may be a second alligator.
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Altogether,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>five alligators were killed in the 16-hour search for Lane, the Sentinel reported. His body was discovered intact about 15 yards from the shore, six feet underwater.
Orange County Sheriff's Office<span style="color: Red;">*</span>spokesman Angelo Nieves said that during initial interviews, a witness also said "he saw a second gator attack the father" as he was fighting with the first one that had his son.
This undated family photo obtained June 16, 2016 courtesy of the Orange County Sheriff's Office in Orlando,Florida shows Lane Graves. A U.S. family's desperate search for their toddler son, who was snatched by an alligator off the shore of a lake at a Disney resort, ended June 15, 2016 when divers found the two-year-old's body in murky water. FAMILY HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: FAMILY HANDOUT, AFP/Getty Images)
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