Two of the monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck on a southeastern Mississippi highway last week have been shot dead and one remains on the loose, per officials and media reports.
The rhesus monkeys escaped on Tuesday, Oct. 28 after a truck picked them up from the Tulane University National Biomedical Research Center in New Orleans, then overturned in Mississippi on Interstate 59, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department shared last week.
Jessica Bond Ferguson, 35, told USA TODAY she shot one of the monkeys on Sunday morning, Nov. 2 in Heidelberg, Mississippi. She was half asleep that morning when her son let her know the family's dogs were barking, seemingly at nothing – no passersby and no garbage trucks that normally send them into barking spells.
Her son then looked out the window and said he saw something running in the yard, chasing her smaller dog, Bond Ferguson told USA TODAY on Nov. 4. He told her it was a monkey.
After calling the police to send someone, she worried about the monkey getting away and harming someone.
