Pet Bengal Tiger Attacks Boy, 3
A family’s pet Bengal tiger mauled and critically wounded a 3-year-old boy as his father was walking the animal on a leash.
Tyler William Forsythe underwent surgery for head wounds at a hospital Thursday night. The year-old, 350-pound male tiger, which had been de-clawed, was shot and killed by the boy’s father and police.
The boy’s father, Mark Forsythe, kept the tiger in a pen in a rural area outside this Raleigh suburb, police said. Forsythe told investigators that he took his three children to see the animal for the first time on Thanksgiving Day.
Forsythe said he was returning the tiger to its pen when his three children approached and Tyler, the youngest, was attacked.
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