South Carolina retirement community’s failure to ‘ensure against natural hazards’ led to death of Nancy Becker, 88, suit claims
woman killed by an alligator in a lagoon near her home sued the owners and managers of her retirement community, alleging “manmade ponds and ponding basins” drew the animal to the area.
The lawsuit says Nancy Becker “endured excruciating pain and suffering, including severed limbs”, the Washington PostFiled on Monday in Beaufort county, South Carolina, the suit alleges negligence and wrongful death and argues the attack could have been prevented. It also argues that the alligator was attracted to water features set up by Del Webb Communities, which the suit alleges failed to “ensure against natural hazards such as alligators”.as defendants Sun City Hilton Head, the community Becker lived in, and an administrator.
Becker was gardening in her back yard on 15 August when she fell into the lagoon. At about 11.15am, police were alerted about an alligator near the pond that appeared to be “guarding what was believed to be a human”, the Beaufort county sheriff
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