The tiger ‘Eko’ will have a necropsy on Monday. Director estimated that the bullet that killed the feline is still lodged in its neck.
The cleaning worker at a Florida zoo who was attacked by a tiger this week after entering a restricted area, a situation that caused a police officer to shoot the feline fatally, could face criminal charges, local media reported this Saturday.
Tiger shot dead after biting Florida Zoo staff
Jack Mulvena, president of the Naples Zoo, on the west coast of Florida, noted that Collier County Authorities Consider Charging against River Rosenquist, 26 years old and who last Wednesday, after the closing of the enclosure, entered the area of the big cats and apparently tried to touch or feed the animal.
Eko, an adult Malaysian tiger who arrived at the Naples Zoo in 2019, grabbed his arm and threw him through the fence, and kept him there until a policeman had to shoot him down. the animal with one shot, according to the authorities.
A video recorded by the zoo’s security cameras shows the worker asking for help while the feline has in its mouth a good part of the limb of man.
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Mulvena said at a press conference that the zoo for its part will not file charges in the wake of this fact in which, he specified, the protocols and internal policies of the institution have no responsibility “in any way for this” and that rather it was human error.
The manager supported that the agent make use of his firearm, a decision that is in accordance with the zoo protocols in a similar situation, and I also wish the worker the best during which it will be “a difficult recovery process”.
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Eko will have a necropsy on Monday, added Mulvena, who estimated that the bullet that killed the feline it is still lodged in his neck.
The zoo opened its doors Friday after officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission conducted an investigation the day before.
The death of this Malaysian tiger, an endangered species According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), it will lead to the creation of a fund in favor of the conservation of these felines by the zoo, revealed the executive. (I)
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