Residents of Heidelberg, Mississippi, have been on edge for several days after a truck carrying rhesus monkeys overturned on Interstate 59, releasing several animals into nearby neighborhoods. But for Jessica Bond Ferguson — a 35-year-old mother of five — the situation became personal when one of the monkeys appeared near her home early Sunday morning.
Her 16-year-old son had just run into the house, saying he saw something moving in the yard. “I didn’t wait,” Ferguson told the Associated Press. “I did what any other mother would do to protect her children.”