Heidelberg, Mississippi (AP) — One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a house owner who says she feared for the safety of her kids.
Jessica Bond Ferguson mentioned she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son, who mentioned he thought he had seen a monkey operating within the yard outdoors their residence close to Heidelberg, Mississippi. She obtained out mattress, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outdoors the place she noticed the monkey about 60 ft (18 meters) away.
Bond mentioned she and different residents had been warned in regards to the ailments the escaped monkeys carried, so she fired her gun.
“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond, who has 5 kids ranging in age from 4 to 16, instructed The Associated Press. “I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a social media put up {that a} home-owner had discovered one of many monkeys on their property Sunday morning however mentioned the workplace didn’t have any particulars. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took possession of the monkey, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The Rhesus monkeys had been housed on the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely supplies primates to scientific analysis organizations, in accordance with the college. In an announcement, Tulane University mentioned the monkeys don’t belong to the college, they usually weren’t being transported by the college.