CINCINNATI, June 1 (UPI) -- The family of a boy who slipped past barriers and fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo resulting in the death of a gorilla are being investigated, police said Tuesday.
The incident spurred outrage across the country after zoo keepers were decided to shoot and kill a male gorilla -- a member of the critically endangered Western lowland gorilla species -- to protect the boy. Though the boy received a concussion and was briefly dragged through the moat surrounding the zoo's gorilla compound, he was unharmed.