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Jessie
Kingsinger, 21, was missing three-quarters of his left arm when
he crawled out of the lake in a wooded area behind an apartment
complex, said Sergeant Gary Gross, a spokesman for the Lakeland
Police Department.
He apparently had run into the water as authorities searched for
him on Wednesday evening, after his mother asked for help
getting him to a medical facility for psychiatric evaluation.
"We expect it had just happened, seconds before he crawled out,
otherwise he would have bled out immediately," Gross said in a
telephone interview.
Kingsinger was hospitalized for treatment of his injuries, along
with an unspecified psychiatric issue, he said. Florida wildlife
officers were searching for the alligator on Thursday.
A contact for Kingsinger could not immediately be reached for
comment.
(Reporting by Letitia Stein; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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