Pet monkey assaults Oklahoma lady earlier than being shot and killed, police say

A pet monkey attacked an Oklahoma lady on Sunday earlier than a member of the family of the sufferer shot and killed the primate, police mentioned.

The assault, which left the girl with non-life-threatening accidents, occurred simply after 6 p.m., when police acquired a report of a monkey on somebody’s entrance porch, in keeping with the Dickson Police Division.

When police arrived on the scene, they referred to as for assist from the Oklahoma Wildlife Division. And when the officers received out of the automotive, the monkey jumped on the again of the automobile after which ran towards the sufferer and climbed onto her, inflicting unspecified accidents, police mentioned.

NBC affiliate KTEN of Ada, a metropolis about 83 miles southeast of Oklahoma Metropolis, reported that the sufferer, Brittany Parker, was the one that initially referred to as police to report the monkey. She informed the station that the monkey “ran up my again and jumped onto my head, pulled hair out, after which ripped my ear in half such as you would a bit of paper.”

Parker was transported first to Mercy Hospital Ardmore after which to OU Well being College of Oklahoma Medical Heart in Oklahoma Metropolis to obtain therapy for her accidents, police mentioned.

She was launched from the hospital early Monday with bruises and a stitched-up ear, KTEN reported.

After attacking Parker, the monkey then ran right into a wooded space, and its homeowners — and police — unsuccessfully tried to trace it down, with police warning the general public to not strategy the animal. In some unspecified time in the future, a member of the family of Parker shot and killed the monkey, police mentioned.

KTEN reported it was a pal of Parker’s who killed the animal, with Parker claiming that the monkey additionally attacked the one that killed it. “We referred to as him and he came visiting right here, and after I had been attacked, the monkey went out to his automobile, slapped him throughout the face, and pulled his hair,” Parker informed the native station.

The monkey’s physique is being analyzed at Oklahoma Illness Laboratory for testing, in keeping with Dickson Police, who mentioned the investigation is ongoing.

Oklahoma legislation classifies primates as domesticated animals, making it authorized to personal one with no allow, KTEN reported. However state legislation additionally makes it a misdemeanor punishable by as much as $50 or 30 days in jail to fail to maintain home animals adequately enclosed.