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(Trends Wide) — A man was hospitalized after a zebra attacked and bit his arm in Ohio on Sunday before an officer shot and killed the animal, according to police.
Deputies were dispatched to a home in Circleville, Ohio, after receiving a call from a man who said “a zebra had bitten his arm,” according to a Pickaway County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by Trends Wide.
The first officer on scene, in events about 28 miles south of Columbus, arrived in his patrol car to see a “hostile” zebra and used his air horn and sirens to scare it enough to get out and apply a tourniquet. on the wounded man’s arm and take him away in an ambulance, the report says.
While medical personnel were tending to the victim, the zebra continued to roam the area and was acting aggressively, according to the report.
Another man on the scene told deputies that “this zebra is aggressive and to take it down if necessary,” the sheriff’s office report said.
Body camera footage shows a man driving the zebra away with a large stick. After keeping its distance for about a minute, the animal finally begins to walk towards the agents. An officer then fired a shot at the zebra, killing it.
The officer who opened fire said he saw the zebra walking aggressively towards him and yelled at it to startle it, but the zebra “did not slow down and continued to approach me,” according to the document.
The sheriff’s office report says the male zebra may have been aggressive because he was guarding a group of female zebras in the field.
Zebras are not classified as dangerous wild animals by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which means they can be kept as pets.
The man who was injured remains at the hospital in good condition, according to an Ohio Health spokesman.
