The body of a Florida woman who went missing on Friday was found just hours after some of her remains were discovered inside an alligator, officials said on Saturday. The woman, identified as Shizuka Matsuki, 47, of Plantation, Fla., was last seen walking her dogs near a lake in the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park in Davie, about 25 miles north of Miami, on Friday morning, the Davie Police Department said. A man saw her walking her dogs there, and then minutes later saw the dogs running loose, one of them injured, reported WPLG, a local ABC affiliate. He called the police. The man “went to the area where he thought that they had been walking, and he immediately spotted an alligator,” said Detective Viviana Gallinal..<doc-sep>The body of a Florida woman who went missing on Friday morning while walking her dogs has been found, and police suspect a 12-foot, 6-inch gator captured nearby is responsible for her death The body of a Florida woman who went missing on Friday morning while walking her dogs has been found, and police suspect a 12-foot, 6-inch gator captured nearby is responsible for her death. On Saturday, the law enforcement division of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced that search teams had recovered the body of Shizuka Matsuki from the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park lake in Davie — not far from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “We would like to extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Shizuka Matsuki,” the organization tweeted. “We will be conducting a thorough investigation into this incident.” Matsuki, 47, had last been seen at the lake near the Ft. Lauderdale lake walking her two dogs, a witness told Davie Police Detective Viviana Gallinal, CBS News reported. A short time later, she was gone, though her dogs were found still on leashes and barking towards the water. Trappers pulled an alligator from the lake hours later, NBC News reported. FWC officials then cut the reptile open and found a human arm inside, believed to be Matsuki’s. “After an initial necropsy, evidence was found that indicates that the victim of this incident was bitten by the alligator that was captured earlier today,” FWC spokesman Robert Klepper said, according to WSVN. Alligator Entering the Water Credit: Moelyn Photos/Getty One of Matsuki’s dogs also “got bit by the gator,” Davie Police Major Dale Engle told the Sun Sentinel. Her husband was out of town at the time of the attack, the paper reported. A neighbor told the Miami Herald that he had warned his wife not to walk near the nature park. “He had warned her not to take the dogs over to that place because they had seen gators before and it isn’t safe,” neighbor Peter Limia, 37, said. “She was just your ordinary soccer mom. It’s a tragedy.” The dogs, which are pit bulls, are currently with Broward County Animal Care, reported the Herald. Fatal Alligator Attacks Set New Record In Florida Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty REALTED VIDEO: Alligator Captured on Video in Same Location Where Boy Was Snatched by Alligator at Disney Hotel<doc-sep>Florida officials confirmed on Saturday divers had found the body of a woman who was killed by an alligator while walking her dogs near a lake in south Florida. The 12ft 6in alligator involved was captured and killed. In a statement, the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission said: “The victim of this tragic incident has been identified as Shizuka Matsuki, 47 years of age, of Plantation, Florida. This tragedy is heartbreaking for everyone involved, and our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of the victim at this time.” A necropsy on the alligator that was captured in Silver Lakes Rotary nature park in Davie on Friday found a human arm in its stomach, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Search teams were then able to enter the lake and locate Matsuki’s body. A Davie police detective, Vivian Gallinal, told reporters a witness had seen Matsuki walking her dogs near the water on Friday morning. An alert was sounded after the witness called police to say they had seen Matsuki walking the dogs and then saw the dogs alone and barking. One of the dogs, a pitbull, was wounded in the attack. The dogs are now in the possession of the Broward county animal care and adoption. Residents told the Sun-Sentinel they had complained about alligators at the park. Davie’s assistant director of parks, Jeff Polhman, told the newspaper trappers had been hired in the past 18 to 24 months to capture the alligator, without success. Some residents said they had lost pets that wandered too close to the lake.<doc-sep>Authorities say a 12-foot, 6-inch alligator attacked and killed a woman who was walking her dogs in Davie, Florida, on Friday. Search teams found the body of the victim just before 10 p.m. on Friday, according to a Saturday release from Florida's Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. The incident occurred at the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park lake in Davie. A FWC statement identified the woman as Shizuka Matsuki, 47, of Plantation, Fla. On Friday, a witness told authorities he saw the woman walking two dogs and then noticed the dogs barking near the water, but he did not see the woman again, said Davie Police Detective Viviana Gallinal. “Her dogs won’t leave the pond,” Davie Police Maj. Dale Engle told the SunSentinel Friday morning as the search began. “One of her dogs got bit by the gator.” Rob Klepper, FWC public information coordinator, confirmed to USA TODAY that the dogs remained near the scene as the search began and that one was injured. June 6:Gator pesters Florida neighborhood, head-butts trapper, makes last-ditch effort to escape June 5:Elk kicks Texas woman in the head in 2nd Yellowstone attack in 3 days The park is near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, a major Miami-area tourist and entertainment attraction. Authorities closed the park Friday, but passers-by said they were not surprised to hear about an alligator lurking in the water. June 7:Bison gores woman who got too close at Yellowstone "Any body of water in Florida, you've got to know at some point or another there's an alligator," said Heather Porrata, who lives nearby. Fatal attacks on humans remain rare, however. According to the wildlife commission, the likelihood of a Florida resident being seriously injured during an unprovoked alligator incident in Florida is roughly only one in 3.2 million. From 1948 to 2017, the commission has documented 401 people bitten by alligators, including 24 fatalities. The most recent death occurred in 2016, when a 2-year-old boy playing near the water's edge at a Walt Disney World resort was killed. Contributing: The Associated Press<doc-sep>
Search teams have located the body of a woman who vanished Friday morning in South Florida, according to officals. The chief suspect in her disappearance was a large alligator, CBS News' David Begnaud reported. The Law Enforcement Division of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Saturday that the body of Shizuka Matsuki was located Friday evening around 10 p.m. at the Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park lake in Davie, Florida. It said the Commission will be conducting a thorough investigation into the incident, but didn't provided additional details. Matsuki, 47, disappeared while walking her dogs. She was bitten and likely killed by an alligator that was later captured, wildlife officials said Friday. A necropsy confirmed the gator bit Matsuki, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said in a statement. Commission spokesman Rob Klepper said they were able to positively identify the woman from evidence collected from the necropsy of the alligator, but he wouldn't specifically say what that evidence was. Officials reportedly found an arm inside the reptile. A witness told authorities he saw the woman walking two dogs and then noticed the dogs alone, barking near the water. One of the dogs had a fresh injury: a gash on its side, said Davie Police Detective Viviana Gallinal. The witness called police when he couldn't find the woman, Gallinal said. Alligators are synonymous with Florida with more than one million in the state. They can literally show up anywhere, and one even watched a 6-year-old boy play on a Slip 'N Slide, Begnaud reported. However, fatal attacks on humans remain rare. According to the wildlife commission, the likelihood of a Florida resident being seriously injured during an unprovoked alligator incident in Florida is roughly only 1 in 3.2 million. From 1948 to 2017, the commission has documented 401 people bitten by alligators, including 24 fatalities. The most recent death occurred in 2016, when a 2-year-old boy playing near the water's edge at a Walt Disney World resort was killed. The park where Matsuki disappeared Friday is near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, a major Miami-area tourist and entertainment attraction. Authorities closed the park Friday, but passers-by said they were not surprised to hear about an alligator lurking in the water. "Any body of water in Florida, you've got to know at some point or another there's an alligator," said Heather Porrata, who lives nearby.