NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Alligators are being removed from a body of water after the body of missing Bryan Vasquez, 12, was found.

According to the New Orleans Coroner's Office report, he died as a result of blunt force trauma by an alligator and drowning.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick called for the removal of alligators from the area where Bryan's body was found. "We want the community and the Michoud neighborhood to be aware that we will have hunters in that body of water eradicating those nuisance alligators," Kirkpatrick said.

Within hours of Kirkpatrick's announcement, an alligator hunter with the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries was already searching in the water.

According to members of the Cajun Navy who were not involved in the hunt but know th

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