HEIDELBERG, Miss. (WVUE) - One of the three remaining lab monkeys who escaped from a truck crash last week on a Mississippi interstate was recovered early Sunday (Nov. 2), the Jasper County (Miss.) Sheriff’s Office said.

Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet (18 meters) away.

Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned about diseases that the escaped monkeys carried so she fired her gun.

“I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,” Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to

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