A steady thrum of news stories in the last month have speculated on how a young male mountain lion got to the Chicago suburb of Roscoe Village where police shot it. Six times. Evidence pointed to a trail of reports leading back through Wisconsin and to South Dakota, almost 1,000 miles away.
Looks like that’s the case. The Sun-Times‘s Dan Rozek has a longish summary today, recounting DNA evidence that connects the cat not only to Wisconsin where it left a drop of blood, but to the genetic markers common among cougars in the Black Hills. The cat was only about two years old. He likely was run off by older males and was instinctively looking for love. “He kept moving because there were no females,” one source tells Rozek. It is too bad, it is hard not to feel, that the officers felt the cat needed killing. They do say they were waiting for animal control to show up when things got scary. The story includes links to abundant, previous coverage of the case.
Other stories:
Chicago Tribune Jeremy Manier, Robert Mitchum have a similarly, detailed acount ; Chicago Daily Herald Mick Zawislak ;
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