HEIDELBERG, Miss. — One of many monkeys that escaped final week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a home-owner who says she feared for the security of her youngsters.
Jessica Bond Ferguson stated she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who stated he thought he had seen a monkey operating within the yard exterior their residence close to Heidelberg, Mississippi. She obtained out mattress, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped exterior the place she noticed the monkey about 60 ft (18 meters) away.
Bond stated she and different residents had been warned concerning the ailments that the escaped monkeys carried so she fired her gun.
“I did what every other mom would do to guard her youngsters,” Bond, who has 5 youngsters ranging in age from 4 to 16, advised The Related Press. “I shot at it and it simply stood there, and I shot once more, and he backed up and that is when he fell.”
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Workplace confirmed in a social media submit {that a} home-owner had discovered one of many monkeys on their property Sunday morning however stated the workplace did not have any particulars. The Mississippi Division of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took possession of the monkey, the sheriff’s workplace stated.
The Rhesus monkeys had been housed on the Tulane College Nationwide Biomedical Analysis Middle in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely offers primates to scientific analysis organizations, in accordance with the college. In an announcement, Tulane College stated the monkeys don’t belong to the college, and so they weren’t being transported by the college.
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