A person who reached via a fence right into a tiger enclosure at Florida’s Naples Zoo — which resulted in the tiger biting him and the large cat being fatally shot — will face no fees.
The incident came about in December, when River Rosenquist, 26, climbed over the fence that separated a tiger named Eko from the general public. Rosenquist was once an worker of a cleansing corporate employed to scrub spaces just like the reward store and toilet, and was once no longer licensed to enter the tiger’s enclosure.
Rosenquist then put his hand via a 2d fence, and Eko bit him and yanked him in opposition to the enclosure. A responding sheriff’s deputy couldn’t get Eko to unlock his arm, and shot Eko to avoid wasting Rosenquist’s lifestyles. Rosenquist was once significantly injured and Eko died from being shot.
The incident came about after hours, so no contributors of the general public have been provide.
On Friday, the Collier County Sheriff’s Place of job introduced that Rosenquist would no longer face felony fees as a result of “there aren’t any regulations at the books that follow” to what came about.
“I’m pissed off or even angered that there is not any present felony regulation that applies on this tragic state of affairs that resulted within the premature dying of a unprecedented and endangered tiger,” Sheriff Kevin Rambosk mentioned in a observation.
Rosenquist’s circle of relatives launched its first public observation on Friday, pronouncing that he was once nonetheless hospitalized however in “solid situation,” and that docs have been ready to keep away from amputating his arm. Additionally they expressed “their maximum heartfelt due to everybody focused on saving his lifestyles from the law enforcement officials and primary responders, to the docs, nurses, and clinical group of workers.”