A 12-foot alligator is said to be responsible for the gruesome death of 61-year-old James Okkerse and authorities still remain mum about what park officials did or did not do leading up to the tragic incident, a report from the Orlando Sentinel said. Okkerse’s lifeless, partially eaten body was discovered October 19 at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, an official with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission revealed.

This is the first time a person has died from an attack by an alligator in Florida since 2007. Before the incident, the FWC recorded 22 fatal alligator attacks in the state since 1948. In the same time period, there have been 338 nonfatal alligator attacks, the Orlando Sentinel wrote. Okkerse’s death marks the end of the state’s longest recorded period without a fatal alligator attack.

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