press release

Police Chief Martin Brody hosted a town hall meeting with Mayor Larry Vaughn on Tuesday, offering a $3,000 reward for capture of the shark that allegedly attacked and killed Alex Kitner and Chrissie Watson.

World War II veteran Ben Quint was in attendance, and offered to take on the task for a substantially higher reward of $10,000.

“For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing,” he said.

By wednesday morning, Village Beach was inundated with people from all over the Northeast, loading up their boats and hunting equipment. Approximately a dozen crews set out in search of the shark, and for the monetary reward.

By late afternoon, fishermen returned with a great white shark which was hung and displayed on the main dock. Brody assured Amity citizens that it was in fact the same shark that attacked Kitner and Watson.

“I am delighted to report,” Brody said in a lengthy press release to the public, “that the giant killer shark that has been blamed for two gruesome deaths this week, disrupting our normally tranquil island life on the eve of our great celebration of this country’s birth(...) has been caught and killed.”

The press release goes on in great length to discuss various details about the fourth of july, in ways that don’t pertain to the shark attack incidents. Statements also reassure townspeople that it is safe, and to return to swimming in the ocean.

Marine Biologist Matt Hooper of the Oceanographic Institute was called into Amity to inspect autopsy reports, and on Wednesday the shark that was captured.

Although Brody is reassuring citizens the water is now safe, Hooper asked for an autopsy of the shark to determine 100 percent that it is in fact the same shark that heinously attacked two of Amity’s minors.

Both Brody and Vaughn refused Hooper’s requested, claiming that “an amateur  autopsy of a fish” in front of so many people would be inappropriate. 

It is remain to be seen whether or not the search will continue, and if Quint will be called in to hunt for the shark.