Lacking Mississippi Monkeys
Mother Weapons Down Monkey in Newly Launched Video
Revealed
Jessica Bond Ferguson by way of Storyful
If you happen to’re a fan of monkeys, proceed with warning … there’s now video displaying the second an escaped monkey in Mississippi was shot at in a non-public yard Sunday.
Try the clip … you possibly can see the second a monkey falls from its perch below an eave of a home after a girl — fearing for her youngsters — gunned it down after discovering it in her yard. Video reveals authorities then carrying its physique away by the tail.
We have been protecting the story … a truck carrying 21 Rhesus macaques overturned final Tuesday … 13 have been gathered up by authorities after the incident, whereas 5 have been shot and killed by a deputy on the scene … after he was mistakenly knowledgeable the monkeys have 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 arms as a result of she was afraid her youngsters is likely to be injured or contaminated. She additionally mentioned she needs authorities had taken the hunt for the escaped monkeys extra critically.
The Related Press reviews an unidentified individual shot one other monkey after seeing it cross a freeway Monday night time. In keeping with the Mississippi Division 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.
