“Sheriff’s officers toting assault rifles are out seeking and killing exotic wild animals that escaped from wild animal game preserve in Zanesville, Ohio. By Wednesday morning officers in the rural, eastern Ohio area had already killed dozens of animals that escaped from a wild-animal preserve — the Muskingum County Animal Farm — and where the owner’s body later was found. Employees from the Columbus Zoo also went to the farm hoping to tranquilize and capture the animals…. The county Sheriff Matt Lutz described them as ‘wild animals that you would see on TV in Africa.’ They include lions, tigers, cheetahs, wolves, giraffes, camels and bears.”
