A Mississippi mother took swift, decisive action to protect her family, and this isn’t about protecting them from screens, but about real dangers. She shot and killed a research monkey that had escaped a transport truck crash the previous week and wandered onto her property near Heidelberg. This whole situation sounds absolutely terrifying, and you can’t blame Jessica Bond Ferguson for putting her children’s safety first when faced with an unknown, aggressive animal.
Ferguson, a 35-year-old professional chef and mother of five children ranging from ages four to sixteen, was alerted to the dangerous situation early Sunday morning by her 16-year-old son. He told her he thought he saw a monkey running right outside their home. She immediately got up, grabbed her firearm and her cell phone, and stepped outside. That’s when she spotted the Rhesus macaque about 60 feet away.
