

She kept yelling as Covert crept closer to the gator. The witness said Covert was not acting like her “normal self.” She said she was cleaning up and noticed her friend on the back steps, very close to the alligator.Ĭovert’s friend yelled to not get any closer, but Covert “continued off the back steps towards to where the alligator was,” the report said. The witness told police that her friend, later identified as 58-year-old Cynthia Covert, of Johns Island, was visiting her home Friday afternoon. Moments before the attack, the woman’s friend warned her to not get closer to the alligator, according to a sheriff’s office incident report obtained by FITSNews, but reported first by the Post and Courier. In an extremely rare event, a South Carolina woman was killed in an alligator attack Friday on Kiawah Island, according to the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office.
