Missing Mississippi Monkeys
Mom Guns Down Monkey in Newly Released Video
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Jessica Bond Ferguson by way of Storyful
If you’re a fan of monkeys, proceed with warning … there’s now video exhibiting the second an escaped monkey in Mississippi was shot at in a personal yard Sunday.
Check out the clip … you may see the second a monkey falls from its perch beneath an eave of a home after a lady — fearing for her youngsters — gunned it down after discovering it in her yard. Video exhibits authorities then carrying its physique away by the tail.
We’ve been overlaying the story … a truck carrying 21 Rhesus macaques overturned final Tuesday … 13 had been gathered up by authorities after the incident, whereas 5 had been shot and killed by a deputy on the scene … after he was mistakenly knowledgeable the monkeys had been contaminated with COVID, herpes and hepatitis C. Three escaped.
TMZ.com
TMZ interviewed the mom behind the gun within the video — Jessica Bond Ferguson — Monday, and she or he mentioned she determined to take issues into her personal fingers as a result of she was afraid her youngsters may be injured or contaminated. She additionally mentioned she needs authorities had taken the hunt for the escaped monkeys extra severely.
The Associated Press stories an unidentified particular person shot one other monkey after seeing it cross a freeway Monday night time. According to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks … two of the three unaccounted-for Rhesus macaques are deceased. As of Tuesday, one monkey remains to be at massive.