The body of the two-year-old boy who was dragged into a Lagoon by an alligator near a Disney resort in Orlando on Tuesday night has been found. was recovered from a lagoon at the Walt The boy has been identified as Lane Graves, the son of Matthew, 42, and Melissa Graves, 38, of Elkhorn, Nebraska. His identity was revealed by the Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
Demings said that dive teams had located the toddler’s body ‘intact’ in the Seven Seas Lagoon.
He said divers located a body around 1:45pm and was pulled out around 3:30pm.
The Graves family were in Orlando on vacation and had arrived on Sunday, unfortunately this terrifying incident occurred on the third day of their vacation.
Lane had been playing in the man made lagoon which wasn’t very deep around 9:20pm when the alligator attacked and dragged him underwater. The hotel had a ‘No swimming’ sign there but there was no warning of alligators in the area.
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During the search, wildlife officials caught six alligators in the lake and killed them all. They said in order to know which gator snatched the child, forensics will have to be used to make that determination.
Demings said they found the boy’s body in the lake intact.
‘His body was completely intact,’ Demings said. ‘The body has now been turned over to the Orange County medical office for an autopsy.’
‘Of course, the family was distraught but also, I believe, somewhat relieved that we were able to find their son with his body intact,’ Demings said.