Police in Ohio responded to a scary situation after a zebra attacked its owner.
A screengrab from a police bodycam footage shows police in Ohio rescue a man who was allegedly attached by an aggressive zebra on March 12, 2023.Officers from the Pickaway County Sheriff's Office were called Sunday to a rural property in Circleville, Ohio, around 5:36 p.m. They found Ronald Clifton on the ground in front of a herd of zebras. He was hemorrhaging blood below his right elbow from a bite wound, according to the police report.
After the officer was able to scare off the hostile zebra with his vehicle's airhorns and sirens, he and his partner were able to administer a tourniquet on Clifton's arm and get him up on his feet, the report said. A police sergeant yelled at the zebra three times as it approached her and then fired at its head with her shotgun, killing it, according to the report.
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