Police: Man dies after shark attack off Cape Cod
UPDATE: 9/17/2018 11:02 a.m. The aunt of the Massachusetts man killed by a shark over the weekend says that she told her nephew to stay away from Cape Cod waters but that he laughed off her concerns.
Marisa Medici tells the Boston Herald that every time she asked Arthur Medici not to go to Cape Cod, he said, “The sharks don’t bite me. I’m Superman.”
He died at the hospital after getting bitten Saturday while boogie boarding off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet. The 26-year-old Revere man was the state’s first shark attack fatality since 1936.
He was with his future brother-in-law when he was bitten on the legs about 30 yards offshore. His femoral arteries were severed.
The aunt says Arthur Medici was “handsome outside, inside, joyful,” and the house was always full of his laughter.
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Police say a man has died after being attacked by a shark off Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Wellfleet Police Lt. Michael Hurley tells The Associated Press a man in his mid-20s succumbed to his injuries following the attack in the waters off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet at around noon Saturday.
The man was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. Hurley says state police and the Cape Cod District Attorney’s office are handling the investigation.
The beach has been closed to swimming.
The attack is the first fatal shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936.
A New York man was severely injured Aug. 15 after fighting off a shark off Truro, also on Cape Cod. He’s currently recovering in a Boston hospital.
