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As the sun dimmed over Houston on Sunday, a Bengal tiger with a collar around its neck jumped over a backyard fence and began to roam leisurely through the grassy front lawns along the block, alarming neighbors.
“I mean, I couldn’t believe it,” neighbor Jose Ramos told KPRC.
Bystanders took pictures and videos of the tiger while an off-duty sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene with a gun and tried to corral the animal.
The tiger appeared to live in a West Houston home rented by Victor Hugo Cuevas. But by the time the authorities arrived to question him about the tiger, Cuevas had loaded the animal into a car and driven away, according to police.