Polk County's sheriff said the man had been acting bizarrely at a gas station, then swam through an alligator-laden lake into the gated Christina neighborhood.

Timothy Schulz, who had a long history of methamphetamine abuse, shook off a gator bite and two Tasings, Sheriff Grady Judd said.

Sheriff Grady Judd gave preliminary information to the media Monday afternoon, detailing how the man who died allegedly tried to attack his deputies - after an alligator may have attacked him. Judd said the first call about the man,