FORT PIERCE, Fla. >> An 85-year-old woman was killed by an alligator while walking her dog in a senior living community on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, officials said.

The woman was walking her dog Monday afternoon beside a canal in Spanish Lakes Fairway near Fort Pierce when the nearly 11-foot alligator attacked the dog, St. Lucie Sheriff Ken Mascara said.

A trapper from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission later tracked down the alligator and deputies helped get it on a truck. It was taken from the scene.

“FWC is in charge of the investigation, however we assisted with a helicopter and manpower,” Mascara said.

The woman’s name has not been released.

Officials said the dog survived the attack, but its condition wasn’t immediately known.

Fatal alligator attacks are rare, but they do happen.

— The Associated Press