"Rare Sumatran tiger killed at Florida zoo"

What a sad headline. You can't tell from it that the tiger first escaped, headed toward a public area, and then charged a person, before being shot to protect human life. It seems to me that the tiger deserved killing. But, then, he was a rare tiger, and that should make people feel sad about his death.

From Reuters:

Enshala, a 180-pound (81 kg) female tiger, was being put into her night house when she slipped past an unlocked latch and headed toward a public area on Tuesday. A veterinarian shot Enshala with a tranquilizer dart but she then charged at him, and zoo president Lex Salisbury killed her with a shotgun.

"I feel sick to my stomach," Salisbury, head of the Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, told the St. Petersburg Times. He said he felt he had to shoot to protect the veterinarian.

That must be some comfort to the veterinarian.