United States: a tiger at large in Houston, the police are looking for him

Fawn who can. A roaming tiger, which terrified residents of Houston, Texas as it wandered its streets, is currently wanted, local police said on Tuesday. “The tiger has not yet been located,” law enforcement in the largest city in Texas said on their Twitter account.

The feline in freedom, with a collar, was seen on Sunday wandering the streets of a residential area of ​​the city, filmed by some neighbors amazed to see a tiger in their garden. The authorities have since lost track of him.

Its alleged owner, a 26-year-old man, was arrested. On parole and involved in a murder case, he is accused of having fled the agents who came to arrest him at his home, by taking the animal in his car.

A policeman living in the neighborhood, who was not on duty but had been informed of the situation, intervened to try to control the animal, pointing his gun at it. “I didn’t want to shoot him at all,” he then told local television KHOU. “He didn’t sound very aggressive. The agent had asked the owner of the tiger, who was there, to recover his animal. The man had obeyed, and had fled, according to local police.

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