Lutz said late Wednesday that all but a monkey had been captured or killed. One monkey that has not been accounted for may have been eaten, he told CNN by large cats on the owner's property, he said.

Zanesville Mayor Howard Zwelling said he got a call from the city's safety director around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday that Terry Thompson, 62, the owner of the farm near downtown, had set the animals free and then shot himself.
Thompson's body was found in the driveway. No suicide note was found. Officials said Thompson cut the gates on the pens so the animals could not be put back inside their cages.
Sheriff Lutz painted a terrifying scene of animals running wild when authorities arrived at the preserve Tuesday night.

Many had gotten outside the fenced area around the property.
"Deputies were shooting animals at close range with sidearms," he said. He said deputies did not have tranquilizer guns.
Lutz said safety was his primary concern because it was getting dark outside and "we could not have animals running loose in this county."
Officers were on the interstate shooting animals to prevent them from getting into subdivisions. One cat was reported hit by a car on the interstate but still alive. Officers were on their way to put it down.
Once officials arrived with tranquilizer guns, "we just had a huge tiger, an adult tiger, estimated at 300 pounds, that was very aggressive," he said. They "got a veterinarian close enough to get a tranquilizer in it," and the tiger went crazy and headed to a wooded area, "and our officer had to put it down."
Residents woke up Wednesday to flashing electronic signs warning drivers on Interstate 70 that wild and dangerous animals were on the loose: "Caution: Exotic Animals. Stay in Vehicle. Call 911 If Seen."
Three school districts in the region were closed, and some private and special schools canceled classes.
Fred Polk Sr. said sheriff's deputies shot three animals Tuesday night that had climbed the fence behind his house and they were still lying there. They were an African lion, mountain lion and a grizzly bear that charged one of the deputies.
Polk's wife was locked inside the house as the deputies stalked a mountain lion and an African lion from the back of a pickup truck, he said.
"The deputies did the right thing. They had no choice," said Polk, who raises cattle and race horses on his 1,500 acres. "It was a time bomb waiting to happen."

Whuile I can agree that those kinds of animals loose in a public area is extremely dangerous, I don't think they should have resorted to lethal tactics right off the bat. Tranquilizers should have been used for some time until the situatuion turned dire enough to warrant open season. Its a damn shame that all those animals had to be put down just because one guy wanted to get back at his neighbors.

>>2 the only thing related with the capture of wild animals within the state was at the state zoo... so my question to them would be, if you want to stand out so much that you'd endanger your citizenry by allowing abusive and mentally unstable people to breed tigers, why not equip the local law enforcement with tools and training needed to deal with the obvious problems that might arise?

>>2 Well I don't think they intended to use firearms right off the bat, I think they were attacked and had no choice and had to retaliate. It was either the animals or them.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/so-you-need-to-disarm-a-chimpanzee/

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