Soon after a Florida man survived an alligator attack on Monday, Polk County Sheriff's deputies fatally shot him when he emerged from a lake and charged at deputies with garden shears, officials said.

Just before 6 a.m., a clerk at a convenience store in Lakeland told police that a man was acting "bizarre," according to WTVT-TV .

'The fact that he was bitten by an alligator significantly and still continued his rampage is shocking.'

The man fled the scene before deputies could question him, the station said.

Around 7:43 a.m., police dispatchers received a tip that a man was swimming in a lake known to be infested with alligators, WTVT reported.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a news conference Monday that an alligator bit the man's right arm.

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