One of many monkeys that escaped after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway on 28 October was shot and killed early Sunday by a house owner who mentioned she feared for the protection of her youngsters.
Jessica Bond Ferguson mentioned she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who mentioned he thought he had seen a monkey working within the yard exterior their residence close to Heidelberg, Mississippi. She received away from bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone, and stepped exterior the place she noticed the monkey about 60 ft (18 meters) away.
Bond mentioned she and different residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys have been probably diseased, 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, instructed the Related Press. “I shot at it and it simply stood there, and I shot once more, and he backed up and that’s when he fell.”
The Jasper county sheriff’s workplace confirmed in a social media submit {that a} house owner had discovered one of many monkeys on their property Sunday morning however mentioned the workplace didn’t have any particulars. The Mississippi division of wildlife, Fisheries, and parks took possession of the monkey, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
The Rhesus monkeys had been housed on the Tulane College Nationwide Biomedical Analysis Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana, which routinely gives primates to scientific analysis organizations, in response to the varsity. In an announcement, Tulane College mentioned the monkeys don’t belong to the college, they usually weren’t being transported by the college.
The Jasper sheriff’s workplace initially mentioned the monkeys have been carrying illnesses together with herpes, however Tulane mentioned in an announcement that the monkeys “haven’t been uncovered to any infectious agent”.
After additionally initially reporting that each one however one monkey had been killed, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned that three monkeys remained at giant and have been being looked for.
The Related Press contributed to this report
