Cynthia Covert died of accidental drowning following the incident on Friday, the coroner's office said
repeatedly ignored her friends’ warnings to back away as she tried to snap photos and touch the animal, authorities said.Get push notifications with news, features and more.In a newly released police report obtained by PEOPLE, friend Barbara Howell told police that Covert, a hair stylist, was visiting her home to do her nails and “appeared not her normal self” the day of the incident.
Covert was doing her nails outside on the porch when she spotted the alligator in a pond behind Howell’s house, and told her friend that she wanted to get closer to try to take pictures of it, according to the report. At that point, Howell called police as her husband William went down to the pond with a shovel to try and hit the alligator away.
The report said that authorities saw the victim’s body surface about 10-15 minutes after arriving on the scene, though their efforts to retrieve her were unsuccessful, and she was dragged back down underwater by the alligator.
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