In attempts to save the boy among the screaming on-lookers, staff members shot 17-year-old Harambe, which has now prompted protests nationwide.
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The Anonymous Ohio Facebook page posted a video Tuesday calling for action against Gregg, who Anonymous seems to blame for the death of the endangered gorilla. A gorilla named Harambe was killed by a special zoo response team on Saturday after a 4-year-old boy slipped into an exhibit and it was concluded his life was in danger.
The Cincinnati police have handed over to a prosecutor the results of their investigation into the actions of the family of a boy whose foray into an enclosure at the city’s zoo led to the killing of an endangered gorilla, officials said Thursday.
A Cincinnati police report says the boy’s mother works at preschool near Cincinnati.
The new fence is now only an extra half foot taller, with wooden beams along the top and bottom with netting in the middle.
Friday is “the earliest” Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters will make a decision on charges, spokesman Triffin Callos said. In some parts of Africa, tourists and researchers routinely trek into the undergrowth to see gorillas in their natural habitat where there are no barriers or enclosures. The boy was taken to the hospital and later released.
The family said through a spokeswoman on Wednesday that the child was doing well, and that they had no plans to sue the zoo over the incident.
The zoo has said the breach Saturday was the first in the exhibit’s 38-year history.
“My son fell in the zoo exhibit!” the mother, whose name has not been released, says on the call. As she pleads for help, she shouts at her son repeatedly: “Be calm!” “As I said, you can lock your auto or lock your house, but if someone wants to get in, they can”.
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In a separate 911 call, a bystander tells a dispatcher, “There’s a baby in the zoo at gorilla moat”.
