This photo provided Thursday, June 2, 2011, by Fox 4 News, Kansas City, shows what a resident thought was an alligator lurking in the weeds near a pond at a Independence, Mo., home. Independence police, responding to a call Saturday reporting the menacing beast, took quick action shooting the alligator in the head as instructed. It wasn't until a second rifle shot bounced off the reptile's head that the officers realized they had mortally wounded a concrete lawn ornament.
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