Second human body discovered eaten by Florida alligators within 10 days

Police in St. Petersburg, Florida, have identified the remains of a 16-year-old boy retrieved from Lake Maggiore in the jaws of an alligator on the Fourth of July — the second instance of human remains being eaten by one of these reptiles in the Sunshine State in little more than a week.

The boy, Jarvis Deliford, was reported missing on June 29, but friends and relatives do not know why he was near the lake. Police acknowledged that his body had significant evidence of “alligator involvement” but did not yet have a ruling on his cause of death from the medical examiner.