LAKELAND, FLORIDA — A career criminal somehow survived an alligator attack, then died in a hail of bullets by deputies ...

A 42-year-old man recently released from jail was bitten by an alligator before being shot and killed by Polk County deputies ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Timothy Schultz, 42, charged at his deputies holding a pair of garden shears after ...

Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into ...

A witness tried to throw the man a preserver. Another witness said the man growled at them when they tried to help.

Sheriff Grady Judd says Polk County deputies shot and killed an armed man who was attacked by an alligator while swimming ...

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said deputies shot Timothy Shultz, 42, after a gator attacked him, assaulted a deputy with garden shears, broke into a patrol car, and attempted to steal a gun.

A man appeared to have survived an alligator attack while swimming across a lake, then he charged deputies with a pair of ...