There is also evidence that the tiger was taunted and tormented by the boys throwing rocks and sticks at it.
This all occurred after the zoo was closed and while the final patrons were exiting.
The only questions for me really are:
Another suspicious fact is that the two injured lads refused to give their names to police - indicating that something untoward was going on and/or that some rather unsavory lads are involved in this whole mess.
Interesting post, thanks. I hadn’t heard that the two injured had refused to give their names to the police, which does sound suspicious.
Are they illegals?
My question is were there witnesses and have they made statements? Tigers and other big cats are basicly nocturnal hunters ... bad timiming on the taunters!
My question is:
Who would they go to a zoo at that hour of the day on Christmas Day? Obviously the lads were Latinos, so why would they be there and not with family?
Methinks this is a gang-related matter.
Interesting.
It sounds like the kids deserved to die. Too bad only one met his maker for his stupidity and cruelness.
I agree with your gangbanger theory. The area near the zoo is home to some very shady characters (and some fine citizens too.) My first thought was that baiting the tiger and/or letting it out of its enclosure was some gang initiation stunt.
The police chief called the area near the tiger enclosure a “crime scene.” I’m quite sure she’s correct. In SF especially, if it turns out that the two mauling “victims” were really perps, they are in for jail time — at least.
One Siberian tiger is worth more than 100 stupid Neanderthal gangbangers. Such a tragedy that it was destroyed.