Police shoot gator twice, then realize it's fake

Independence police spokesman Tom Gentry says a
resident called to report that his children spotted a gator while playing in
the woods near the pond. After a conservation agent advised police to kill the
gator if they felt it posed a danger, an officer shot it twice in the head
before realizing it wasn't moving. Gentry says the gator was partially
submerged in weeds and looked real in the growing darkness.
The landowner says
it was meant to scare off children.