The deputy asked if she was safe to which she responded “I need you to shoot him.” After another remark that was indistinguishable from the video, she told the deputy to “Do a headshot.”
To this, the Umatilla County sheriff’s deputy is seen aiming and firing. He called for backup and an ambulance as the woman can be heard yelling to get an ambulance for her injured daughter.
Buck the chimpanzee was kept as a pet by Tamara Brogoitti for 17 years. On Sunday, local authorities were called to her home after Buck attacked her daughter. Lieutenant Sterrin Ward with the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office told KAPP-KVEW the victim suffered several bites to her torso, arms, and legs.
Deputy fatally shoots pet chimpanzee that attacked Oregon woman
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PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) A deputy shot and killed an adult pet chimpanzee named Buck after it attacked a woman in Eastern Oregon, sheriff’s officials said.
The Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office said the chimpanzee, who had lived with Tamara Brogoitti for 17 years in Pendleton, started attacking Brogoitti’s daughter at about 8 a.m. on Sunday, The Tri-City Herald reported.
Brogoitti, 68, called 911 and said the animal had bitten her 50-year-old daughter in the torso, arms and legs and that her daughter was hiding in a basement bedroom, sheriff’s Lt. Sterrin Ward said.
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PENDLETON (AP) An eastern Oregon law enforcement deputy was killed while off-duty in a rafting accident near Minam State Park in Wallowa County, authorities said Sunday.
Senior Deputy Jason Post, 34, died Saturday after he and three other adults were thrown from their raft, Lt. Sterrin Ward said. Post was unable to reach the shore and his body was found shortly afterward.
The three others survived.
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Post had served as a deputy at the Umatilla County Sheriff s Office for the past decade. He left in April to join Umatilla County Parole and Probation in order to spend more time with his wife and their baby girl, Sterrin said.
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PENDLETON (AP) An eastern Oregon law enforcement deputy was killed while off-duty in a rafting accident near Minam State Park in Wallowa County, authorities said Sunday.
Senior Deputy Jason Post, 34, died Saturday after he and three other adults were thrown from their raft, Lt. Sterrin Ward said. Post was unable to reach the shore and his body was found shortly afterward.
The three others survived.
Post had served as a deputy at the Umatilla County Sheriff s Office for the past decade. He left in April to join Umatilla County Parole and Probation in order to spend more time with his wife and their baby girl, Sterrin said.