Georgia woman drowns after alligator attack in Fort Myers

<p>A Georgia university student drowned after an alligator bit off part of her right arm while she apparently went skinny-dipping in a lake, an autopsy found.</p><p>The autopsy was performed Monday, a day after the body of Michelle Reeves, 20, of Roswell, was found floating face down in a lake near the Cypress Cove development.</p><p>Reeves was a junior English major at Georgia State University in Atlanta and an amateur poet.</p><p>"She was the kind of person who would go swimming at 2 in the morning. She was a free spirit in the best sense of the word," said Paul J. Voss, an associate professor of literature at Georgia State.</p><p>Her right arm was bitten off at the elbow, and she also had puncture wounds on her left arm and upper body. She was last seen at 2:30 a.m. Sunday, when she went to bed, officials said.</p><p>Her father couldn't find her about Sunday morning. While searching for her, he found his daughter's nightgown near the lake. He later found her body after calling sheriff's deputies.</p><p>An alligator was trapped and removed from the area Sunday.</p><p>"They performed an on-scene necropsy and they did find body parts in the stomach of the alligator," said Jo Anne Adams, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.</p>