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Boy kills gator with brick while fishing at Akron:eek:

Associated Press • April 22, 2009

AKRON (AP) — An Ohio teenager out for a leisurely day of fishing caught an alligator instead when it rose from a lake and lunged at him.

Anthony Greer said the alligator rose out of Akron’s Summit Lake at about 9 a.m. Sunday. The 14-year-old says he killed it by hitting it on the head with a brick.

The 4 feet, 2 inches long alligator has a silver colored band on its right back foot that reads “483.”

Akron Zoo’s manager of Living Collections, Pete Mohan, said it’s possible the alligator came from an alligator farm or a pet store.

Another teenager caught another alligator at the same lake in 2007. That gator was captured alive and was adopted by an animal rescue group.