Escaped Monkey in Mississippi Killed By Frightened Mother

One of the escaped monkeys in Mississippi was shot and killed Sunday morning by a mother who told The Associated Press she feared for the safety of her children.

AP reports this. Jessica Bond Ferguson – a mother of five living in Heidelberg, Mississippi – this morning her 16-year-old son alerted her to a monkey running around in their yard… and when she looked, she said the monkey was only 60 feet from her house.

Ferguson told the publication that she fired the gun… “I did what any other mother would do to protect her children. I shot him and he was just standing there and I shot again and he stepped back and that's when he fell.”

How do you know…a the truck overturned In late October, he was transporting rhesus monkeys from the Tulane National Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, causing 21 monkeys to escape from the vehicle.

13 people were detained by the authorities, five were shot dead on the spot after the chief erroneously stated the monkeys were infected with COVID, herpes and hepatitis C (authorities later clarified that this was not the case), but three escaped into the wild.