Accused Murderer And His Escaped Tiger On The Run From Police In Houston
A man who's out on bond for a murder in Fort Bend County, Texas, grabbed his tiger and sped away from police after the big cat escaped from the man's Houston home, police said Monday afternoon, in a bizarre twist to a situation that started Sunday night and almost led to the tiger getting shot.identified the man as 26-year-old Victor Hugo Cuevas, who is charged with one felony count of evading arrest.
Cuevas posted a $250,000 bond last year after being arrested in connection with a deadly 2017 shooting outside of a sushi restaurant, according toResidents of a west Houston neighborhood were shocked Sunday night when an endangered Bengal tiger apparently cared for by Cuevas began roaming the streets after apparently escaping from a house.
An off-duty police officer could be seen in a widely-shared video approaching the tiger with his gun drawn at about 8 p.m. during a tense exchange where he yelled at the tiger's owner to"get your tiger back inside." The owner then corralled the tiger and took it into the house, according to Houston Police Commander Ron Borza.
But police said that just minutes later, the man and the tiger took off in a white Jeep Cherokee—just as police were arriving on the scene.It's not clear where Cuevas or the tiger are now and it's not clear why he had a tiger in the first place and how it managed to get onto the streets.
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