Schools closed and motorists were warned to stay in their vehicles as officers with assault rifles patrolled a rural area in eastern Ohio Wednesday, a day after police killed dozens of escaped animals from a wild-animal preserve, where the owner was found.
When asked on NBC's TODAY show whether Muskingum County Animal Farm owner Terry Thompson may have killed himself, county Sheriff Matt Lutz responded, "Anything's a possibility at this point."
He said authorities were awaiting autopsy results. Lutz had said earlier that the death was not suspicious.
As authorities warned that more animals still were on the loose, three school districts in the region and some private and special schools canceled classes as the remaining bears, big cats, wolves and other beasts from the Muskingum County Animal Farm were hunted down.
Orders are to shoot and kill. Read more at,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44953925/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Tp_CinKT8RM
When asked on NBC's TODAY show whether Muskingum County Animal Farm owner Terry Thompson may have killed himself, county Sheriff Matt Lutz responded, "Anything's a possibility at this point."
He said authorities were awaiting autopsy results. Lutz had said earlier that the death was not suspicious.
As authorities warned that more animals still were on the loose, three school districts in the region and some private and special schools canceled classes as the remaining bears, big cats, wolves and other beasts from the Muskingum County Animal Farm were hunted down.
Orders are to shoot and kill. Read more at,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44953925/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Tp_CinKT8RM
Such a sad ending to so many animal lives.