Tuesday, Mar. 9
March 9, 2010
Sheriff’s ranges give public a new target
March 11, 2010Terrebonne Parish’s nuisance-alligator hunter, Easton DeHart, has died after suffering serious burns in a hunting accident.
The Associated Press reports that the 76-year-old DeHart, known as “Gator Man” in Terrebonne, died early last Wednesday at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
Family members said he suffered a heart attack while being treated for the second-degree burns he suffered Feb. 18.
DeHart was burned after he and two friends set fires to route rabbits out of the brush in a remote, marshy area, not far from DeHart’s camp near Bayou Penchant.
DeHart had served for about eight years as Terrebonne’s nuisance alligator catcher, the man people called when ‘gators ended up near inhabited areas.
