The Nebraska couple whose 2-year-old son was snatched and killed by an alligator prowling in a lake near Walt Disney World are unlikely to face charges in the tragedy, a sheriff said.

“There’s nothing in this case to indicate that there was anything extraordinary” in terms of neglect by the parents, Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told The AP.

Demings said his department and the state wildlife agency would look into signage around Seven Seas Lagoon, where Disney had posted “no swimming” signs but no warnings about the presence of alligators.

Disney will “thoroughly review” the sign issue in the future, a company rep said. Beaches that were closed during the search remained off limits to visitors, the company said.

In a statement from Disney World Resort President George A. Kalogridis, the company said it was “doing what we can” to help the family.

Searchers removed five of the reptiles from the water while looking for Lane Graves, who was attacked at the water’s edge Tuesday night.

Divers found the toddler’s body after a 16-hour search near the Magic Kingdom theme park, one of the world’s most popular tourist spots.

Demings said it appeared the gator drowned the son of Will and Melissa Graves — who were vacationing from Nebraska — and left his body near the spot where he was last seen. An autopsy was planned.

“Of course the family was distraught, but also I believe somewhat relieved that his body was found intact,” Demings said.

A family friend released a statement on behalf of the stricken family thanking well-wishers for their “thoughts and hope-filled prayers.”

CEO Michael Iaccarino of Infogroup, a marketing company where Matt Graves is chief data officer, said Graves’ family “is the light of his life.”

Anna Shymanski, a friend and co-worker of Matt, said in a statement: “I am absolutely stunned and heartbroken to learn of his family’s unspeakable loss,” the Orlando Sentinel reported.

In the family’s hometown of Elkhorn, friends and neighbors reacted with disbelief and shock.

The principal of their church parish described the parents as caring and attentive.

“The St. Patrick’s Parish and school community is just flat out devastated,” Norman Hale, principal of St. Patrick’s Parish Catholic School, told Omaha station KMTV.

Lane’s dad desperately tried to pry the boy from the gator – estimated to be up to 7 feet long — after it snatched the boy in a foot or two of water. A nearby lifeguard also was unable to save the boy.

Bill Wilson of New Harmony, Indiana, said he watched from his balcony after hearing screams and splashing.

“I thought someone got in a fight,” Wilson told the Orlando Sentinel. “I looked over and here comes one of the lifeguards … The mother was there, and she was frantic, running up and down looking.”

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which generally responds to nuisance gator reports, isn’t often involved on property owned by Disney, which it allows to handle the problem.

“We have an open partnership with them where they can just call a trapper or have a staffer take out the alligator,” said Nick Wiley, executive director of the commission. “They take the action directly.”

Such attacks, especially with a toddler, are “very rare,” Wiley told the paper.

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