"I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,"
"I shot at it and it just stood there, and I shot again, and he backed up and that's when he fell."
"If it attacked somebody's kid, and I could have stopped it, that would be a lot on me,"
"It's kind of scary and dangerous that they are running around, and people have kids playing in their yards."
A truck overturned on a Mississippi highway, allowing rhesus monkeys to escape from transport. One escaped monkey was found near a Heidelberg home early Sunday. A homeowner, alerted by her 16-year-old son, went outside with a firearm and cellphone and saw the monkey about 60 feet away. Residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys carried diseases, and the homeowner feared the animal would threaten neighborhood children. She called police before going out but ultimately shot the monkey. The Jasper County Sheriff's Office and the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks took possession of the animal. The monkeys had been housed at Tulane University's National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans.
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