A brave mother said she fatally shot one of the monkeys authorities have been looking for after they escaped an overturned truck in Mississippi.

The shooting incident happened on Sunday when 35-year-old Jessica Bond Ferguson’s teenage son told her a monkey was outside on their property, which is located near Heidelberg, Fox News reported Monday.

The Rhesus monkey, which was among 21 monkeys being transported prior to the crash, had escaped from the overturned truck Tuesday along Interstate 59.

When one of the escaped monkeys showed up in her yard, Bond Ferguson, who is a mother of five children and a professional chef, took action to protect her family.

She told reporters she grabbed her phone and firearm, went outside, and saw the animal about 60 feet away.

“I did what any other

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