“‘I want to go in the monkeys, the gorillas, I want to go in’ and she kept saying, ‘No you don’t, no you don’t’,” O‘Connor said, adding it isn’t the zoo’s fault. “That same exhibit I would take my children there now with no changes, would I watch them closely? Sure, I would,” O’Connor said.
Authorities on Thursday said they have completed an investigation into the boy’s fall. The Cincinnati Police Department has turned over the probe to Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph Deters, the office said in a statement.
A 911 call from the boy’s mother was also released.
“My son fell in the zoo exhibit at the gorilla—at the Cincinnati zoo. My son fell in with the gorilla. There is a male gorilla standing over him,” she says “He’s dragging my son. I can’t watch this. I can’t watch.”
Deters said his review would be concluded Friday.
