The United Cajun Navy volunteer who found 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez dead in a New Orleans East lagoon earlier this week said Thursday that two alligators surfaced with the boy’s body after storing it under water.
Aided by a thermal drone, volunteer Jon Gusanders discovered Bryan floating in the lagoon at around 8 a.m. Tuesday, putting an end to a 12-day, multi-agency search. The New Orleans coroner determined he died from blunt force trauma and drowning sustained during an alligator attack.
At a Thursday press conference held near the site where Bryan was found, Gusanders said a “violent movement under the water’s surface” alerted him to the body’s location…