You’re right. I first heard this story on the reddit disc golf sub. (I used to play this course pretty often when I lived in St Pete). The person killed was a local homeless man with the nickname “Rocstar” (the “Roc” is a popular disc golf disc shape by Innova). Rocstar routinely dove in the lake to collect lost discs and resell them at the local disc shop. Disc Shops will often give $2-3 per discs to the finder and then contact the owner (if there’s a name/number on the disc, which is common practice). Then they’ll “sell” it back to the owner for the same $2-3 finders fee. Good way to build rapport with the disc community and get people into the shop to buy stuff. If you don’t come to collect or there’s no name/number they’ll re-list for sale. So, Rocstar used this as an income stream. The “dog walker” who found him was apparently the OP on reddit who said he could roughly ID Rocstar by his tattoos and his bike nearby. He said that his arm had been ripped off. Pretty much how you die from an alligator attack. Gator chomps your arm and goes into the death roll and your arm pops off. Then the gator will cache your body somewhere to eat on it later. Gotta feel bad for the guy but he knew the risks.
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