Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mountain Lion Shot and Killed in Downtown El Paso

The mountain lion was first spotted in a downtown parking garage. That's where it was first tranquilized, but the chase was far from over. Before being trapped inside H & H's security gates someone spotted the lion inside this downtown parking garage. That's where a state veterinarian shot it with a tranquilizer dart.
But before the dart could take effect the lion jumped out of the garage onto the street and the wild chase was on again. This time it headed straight for Saint Clements School. We spoke with Martin Munoz, the school's security guard, "Everybody was screaming," he said, "That's all I could do I ran and hugged like 3 or 4 of them and by the time I looked I saw the lion jumping over ." From there the lion came face to face with this man. Witnesses told us it pounced his legs, jumped over his head and ran right into the car wash. As employees, scattered authorities lowered the gates. For nearly an hour the animal wandered around as they waited for the tranquilizer to take effect. When the lion didn't seem slow, the state veterinarian got another dart ready...more

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