Yes, but a great white was found with human remains in its stomach, confirmed by a group of scientists. Also, the attacks ended after it was caught.
It remains a mystery; perhaps it was a coincidence of a bull and great white shark at the same time and place. Some have hypothesized these fairly uncommon sharks for the region were driven north due to the Spanish-American War.
All of this is summarized from my reading of the Wikipedia page.
tl;dr: it was probably a bull shark because the attacks largely happened in the river.
I didn’t read this article, but I read a book about it a while back.
Yes, but a great white was found with human remains in its stomach, confirmed by a group of scientists. Also, the attacks ended after it was caught.
It remains a mystery; perhaps it was a coincidence of a bull and great white shark at the same time and place. Some have hypothesized these fairly uncommon sharks for the region were driven north due to the Spanish-American War.
All of this is summarized from my reading of the Wikipedia page.