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A prosecutor's office says police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a 4-year-old boy entering a gorilla's exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and the animal being shot to death to protect the child.
The killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo in order to save a child who fell in its enclosure has sparked nationwide outrage.
A special zoo response team shot and killed a 17-year-old gorilla Saturday that grabbed and dragged a four-year-old boy who fell into the exhibit's moat, the Cincinnati Zoo's director said.
