A bison was fatally shot by a police officer in Colorado Springs Tuesday night after the animal escaped from a packing plant.
The incident unfolded at about 8:15 p.m. when the bison bolted while it was being unloaded from a truck at G & C Packing Company, 240 S. 21st St., according to the Colorado Springs Police Department crime blotter.
The beast “escaped through a gap between the truck and the ramp into the pen,” police said.
The bison hoofed it north on 21st Street and ended up at Thorndale Park, North 24th and West Uintah Street.
An officer responded to the escape and felled the animal with one shot, police said.
“Bison are unpredictable and can get dangerously wild while running loose and are a danger to the community,” the blotter said.
No people were injured in the incident.
Packing company employees hauled off the carcass.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
