Gator stalks 12-year-old at Keystone Beach

Shawn Baker and a five-foot alligator look at each other while Baker was stranded on a swimming platform at Keystone Beach.

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— A 12-year-old boy was stranded on the floating dock at Keystone Beach for over an hour Saturday as a five-foot-alligator swam nearby. Shawn Baker was rescued by Donald Sharp and another man after Sharp waded out to the platform and used a buoy rope to pull the dock…

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