“One of my feet was on the sand and then the gator got my other one and then pulled me back,” Gabriel said.
To stop the gator from pulling him into the water, he grabbed onto a stick on land and started bashing the animal on the head.“He kept pulling, so then I just try to hit him … and then he let go … and then I ran up as fast as I could,” Gabriel told the outlet.
He sprinted to the nearest house for help and immediately called his mom, Allison Klimis, who was terrified at the news. “Complete shock. Terror, of course. Super scared. I told him to call 911, and I would be right there,” she said.The young teen was able to bash the animal on the head with a stick to make it release its grip while biting into him.The teenager kept his cool when he spoke with a 911 dispatcher and calmly said that he was OK: “I can walk and I can stand. I’m fine, it just stings a little, but I’m good.
“In the end, I’m just blessed, grateful, thankful that the angels were watching over him and God was there because I know without that, my son could definitely be gone,” the frightened mother said.An alligator was killed in the creek on Thursday by a nuisance trapper, but it’s unclear if it was the same one that bit Gabriel, the family said.
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