Almost two hours ago, Alex Kitner’s screams could be heard all across the Village Beach. Moments before, he was swimming quietly on top of an inflatable raft surrounded by other children. Then, what appeared to a be a giant shark , grabbed on to him before plunging back into the water.
The water began to become a deadly red, as blood spurted three feet into the air from Kitner. He screamed again shortly before being dragged completely underwater in an oasis of salty blood water.
Parents ran in to grab their children as Chief Police Martin Brody yelled for everyone to get out of the water.
In under a minute, the chaos was over, a red tide of blood and a bitten raft was the only thing recovered. Kitner’s mother, Marion Kintner, was the left devastated only releasing after it all that it had been her son. She is now being treated for shock at the Amity General Hospital.
“There is no evidence to support it was or was not a shark attack,” Brody said in a phone interview after giving a nervous laugh.
The death of Alex Kitner is now being linked with the death of Wendy Watson, age 17, whose mauled body was found at the remote end of South Beach this morning. Brody reports the deaths are not linked by obvious violence down to both, Wendy had been mauled and mangled, but rather happening in the same day.
“I can’t recall the last time we had two deaths in the same day,” said Brody over the phone, “unless in a nursing home.” Still he said he was going to talk at the Town Hall meeting at 6PM if the beaches can be closed. He also refuses to allow his child into the water and cautions everyone else to do the same.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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